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SEEM seminar by behavioral scientist Daniel Nettle
Université Montpellier Campus Triolet ISEM Salle Louis Thaler Bât 22 1st floor Place Eugène Bataillon, Montpellier, Languedoc Roussillon, FranceSEEM Seminar- Food insecurity and obesity: Unpacking the paradox Food insecurity describes the state where an individual's access to food is restricted or uncertain. In humans, at least in Western countries, people who suffer food insecurity are fatter than those who do not. Social scientists find this paradoxical: the people with the worst access to [...]
Lugdiwine Burtschell's thesis defense
Université Montpellier Campus Triolet ISEM Salle Louis Thaler Bât 22 1st floor Place Eugène Bataillon, Montpellier, Languedoc Roussillon, FranceEvolution of reproductive seasonality: a multi-scale investigation in mammals Reproductive seasonality is a major adaptation to seasonal cycles, which consists in temporally grouping reproductive events in order to synchronize the associated energetic costs with the most productive season of the year. This strategy is widespread, particularly in mammals [...].
SEEM seminar by Florence Lévrero- Lecturer in Biology at the Université Jean Monnet Saint Etienne and researcher with the CRNL's ENES team
Université Montpellier Campus Triolet ISEM Salle Louis Thaler Bât 22 1st floor Place Eugène Bataillon, Montpellier, Languedoc Roussillon, FranceSEEM Seminar - The evolution of vocal communication is the result of multiple selection pressures, among which social life plays an important role. Indeed, different types of information must be reliably encoded in vocalizations according to the social needs of the species. In this presentation, I will first examine the influences [...]
SEEM Seminar - Alice Baniel "Evidence of deceptive fecundity in a wild primate".
Université Montpellier Campus Triolet ISEM Salle Louis Thaler Bât 22 1st floor Place Eugène Bataillon, Montpellier, Languedoc Roussillon, FranceSexual bulges in primates have long sparked debate about their function - do they reliably indicate female fertility, or do they deceptively blur it? Here, we provide evidence that female primates can manipulate sexual swellings to outwardly indicate fecundity while inwardly failing [...].
ISEM Monday Seminar - Michel Raymond
Université Montpellier Campus Triolet ISEM Salle Louis Thaler Bât 22 1st floor Place Eugène Bataillon, Montpellier, Languedoc Roussillon, FranceTitle and summary to come
Evolutionary Anthropology team seminar - Maria van Noordwijk, Primatologist: Male reproductive success in orangutans
Université Montpellier Campus Triolet ISEM Salle Louis Thaler Bât 22 1st floor Place Eugène Bataillon, Montpellier, Languedoc Roussillon, France"Orangutan life cycle: slow but sure" Among our closest extant relatives, the life of orangutans remains the least documented and understood, mainly due to their solitary lifestyle. Based on a 15-year study of Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii), our research aims to [...]
SEEM Seminar - Carel van Schaik and Zitan Song
Université Montpellier Campus Triolet ISEM Salle Louis Thaler Bât 22 1st floor Place Eugène Bataillon, Montpellier, Languedoc Roussillon, FranceThe expensive brain and the evolution of brain size Vertebrate brains vary considerably in size, and this variation is often attributed to differing cognitive demands. Here, we ask whether the unusually high costs of brains have acted as constraints on the evolution of brain size. We confirm that [...]
SEEM Seminar - Carel van Schaik and Zitan Song
Université Montpellier Campus Triolet ISEM Salle Louis Thaler Bât 22 1st floor Place Eugène Bataillon, Montpellier, Languedoc Roussillon, FranceThe expensive brain and the evolution of brain size Vertebrate brains vary considerably in size, and this variation is often attributed to differing cognitive demands. Here, we ask whether the unusually high costs of brains have acted as constraints on the evolution of brain size. We confirm that [...]
The evolution of power asymmetries between the sexes in primates / Elise Huchard
Frontiers in Social Evolution Seminar
The ecology of sexual coercion and of male-female power asymmetries in primates : Elise Huchard | Frontiers in Social Evolution (FINE) online seminar series
In animal societies, control over resources and reproduction is often biased towards one sex. Such power asymmetries between the sexes largely shape male-female sexual and social relationships. In particular, males often coerce females in reproductive contexts, but also in other contexts. Yet, the ecological and evolutionary underpinnings of male-female power asymmetries remain poorly understood. In [...]