SEEM 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 [...]
Evolution 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 [...].