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
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Empathy for other species
Rich, diverse and complex, the range of emotions we feel when in contact with other organisms
organisms is...
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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...
164 documents
- 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, 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, 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. 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⟩
- Jeanne Bovet, Melissa Barkat-Defradas, Valérie Durand, Charlotte Faurie, Michel Raymond. Women's attractiveness is linked to expected age at menopause. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 2018, 31 (2), pp.229-238. ⟨10.1111/jeb.13214⟩. ⟨hal-01829172⟩
- Sarah Nila, Julien Barthes, Pierre-André Crochet, Bambang Suryobroto, Michel Raymond. Kin Selection and Male Homosexual Preference in Indonesia. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 2018, ⟨10.1007/s10508-018-1202-y⟩. ⟨hal-01827409⟩
- Winati Nurhayu, Sarah Nila, Michel Raymond, Bambang Suryobroto. Are right- and left-handedness relevant as general categories in a non-industrialized country?. Acta ethologica, 2018, 21 (1), pp.21-28. ⟨10.1007/s10211-017-0279-y⟩. ⟨hal-01830278⟩
- William J. Ripple, Christopher Wolf, Thomas M. Newsome, Mauro Galetti, Mohammed Alamgir, et al.. World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice. Bioscience, 2017, 67 (12), pp.1026 - 1028. ⟨10.1093/biosci/bix125⟩. ⟨hal-01906049⟩
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