Michel Raymond
Research Director
Human evolutionary biology, by overturning the traditional (but arbitrary) barriers between evolutionary biology and the human sciences, approaches everything related to the human species from a new angle.
I am particularly interested in cultural evolution, conflicts around parental investment, the evolution of aesthetic preferences, the understanding of manual laterality, and certain Darwinian paradoxes (frequent and heritable traits associated with lower survival or reproduction).
I propose an optional teaching module (introduction to human evolutionary biology) in the M2R Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution course.
Raymond et al. 2023
Link to article Latest article on male homosexual preference: how to explain the effect of rank...
People who eat a breakfast rich in refined carbohydrates are considered less attractive...
According to a study... Press article published in "The Guardian" Press article published in...
Empathy for other species
Rich, diverse and complex, the range of emotions we feel when in contact with other organisms
organisms is...
organisms is...
Nutrition and disease in humans
Over the course of the 20th century, a substantial change in diet took place in...
Genetic adaptation to risk
The aim of this project is to study risk-taking behavior, the possibility of...
A broader cultural view is necessary to study the evolution of sexual orientation
The causality of sexual orientation is probably complex and influenced by multiple factors. We...
A broader cultural view is necessary to study the evolution of sexual orientation
The causality of sexual orientation is probably complex and influenced by multiple factors. We...
168 documents
- Alexandre Suire, Alba Bossoms Mesa, Michel Raymond, Melissa Barkat-Defradas. Symbolisme phonétique du genre dans les prénoms français. 6e conférence conjointe Journées d'Études sur la Parole (JEP, 33e édition), Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN, 27e édition), Rencontre des Étudiants Chercheurs en Informatique pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues (RÉCITAL, 22e édition). Volume 1 : Journées d'Études sur la Parole, 2020, Nancy, France. pp.588-596. ⟨hal-02798590v3⟩
- Mélissa Gentreau, Virginie Chuy, Catherine Féart, Cécilia Samieri, Karen Ritchie, et al.. Refined carbohydrate‐rich diet is associated with long‐term risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease in apolipoprotein E ε4 allele carriers. Alzheimer's & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring, 2020, 16 (7), pp.1043-1053. ⟨10.1002/alz.12114⟩. ⟨hal-02978591v2⟩
- Mélissa Gentreau, Michel Raymond, Virginie Chuy, Cecilia Samieri, Catherine Feart, et al.. High Glycemic Load Is Associated with Cognitive Decline in Apolipoprotein E epsilon4 Allele Carriers. Nutrients, 2020, 12 (12), pp.E3619. ⟨10.3390/nu12123619⟩. ⟨hal-03163930⟩
- Frédéric Thomas, Mathieu Giraudeau, François Renaud, Beata Ujvari, Benjamin Roche, et al.. Can postfertile life stages evolve as an anticancer mechanism?. PLoS Biology, 2019, 17 (12), pp.e3000565. ⟨10.1371/journal.pbio.3000565⟩. ⟨hal-02445900⟩
- Aurélien Miralles, Michel Raymond, Guillaume Lecointre. Empathy and compassion toward other species decrease with evolutionary divergence time. Scientific Reports, 2019, 9 (1), ⟨10.1038/s41598-019-56006-9⟩. ⟨hal-02421692⟩
- Winati Nurhayu, Sarah Nila, Kanthi Arum Widayati, Puji Rianti, Bambang Suryobroto, et al.. Handedness heritability in industrialized and nonindustrialized societies. Heredity, 2019, ⟨10.1038/s41437-019-0274-3⟩. ⟨hal-02337619⟩
- Alexandre Suire, Alba Bossoms Mesa, Michel Raymond, Melissa Barkat-Defradas. Sex-biased sound symbolism in French first names. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2019, 1, ⟨10.1017/ehs.2019.7⟩. ⟨hal-02352914⟩
- Alexandre Suire, Michel Raymond, Melissa Barkat-Defradas. Male Vocal Quality and Its Relation to Females’ Preferences. Evolutionary Psychology: an International Journal of Evolutionary Approaches to Psychology and Behavior, 2019, 17 (3), pp.147470491987467. ⟨10.1177/1474704919874675⟩. ⟨hal-02352935⟩
- Alexandre Suire, Michel Raymond, Melissa Barkat-Defradas. Human vocal behavior within competitive and courtship contexts and its relation to mating success. Evolution and Human Behavior, 2018, 39 (6), pp.684-691. ⟨10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2018.07.001⟩. ⟨hal-02352946⟩
- Arnaud Tognetti, Guila Ganem, Michel Raymond, Charlotte Faurie. Female mound-building mice prefer males that invest more in building behavior, even when this behavior is not observed. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2018, 72 (9), ⟨10.1007/s00265-018-2569-4⟩. ⟨hal-01865013⟩
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