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Alex Alvergne
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Research Scientist at CNRS - Montpellier Evo Anthro Group Leader - Post about Human Evolutionary Ecology - Evo Med & Public Health - Women’s Health
“Overall, we conclude that the current evidence base is too weak to support the claim that women’s feminine morphological traits are associated with reproductive potential”. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
A systematic review of the association between women’s morphological traits and fertility | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core
A systematic review of the association between women’s morphological traits and fertility
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November 5, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Post-reproductive lifespan in wild mountain gorillas | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Post-reproductive lifespan in wild mountain gorillas | PNAS
Animals can typically maximize their fitness by reproducing throughout adulthood. Yet, in a handful of species, females cease reproduction long bef...
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October 21, 2025 at 8:59 AM
“Hadza children make a huge economic contribution to their households” @ Alyssa Crittenden from Uni of Las Vegas presents to the Evo Anthro Montpellier Group
September 25, 2025 at 12:40 PM
New research out with @jackiemaybin.bsky.social ! Disease and periods - a potentially bidirectional relationship !
cnrs.fr CNRS @cnrs.fr · Sep 18
#PressRelease 🗞️ Women suffering from long COVID have a greater risk of experiencing abnormal uterine bleeding. The symptoms of the illness intensify during the perimenstrual and proliferative phases of the menstrual cycle.

👉 www.cnrs.fr/en/press/men...
September 18, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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The human immune system evolved over millennia - and can adapt within a single lifetime. This review examines how the immune responses change over the life course. By Jessica Metcalf, Andrea Graham, Andrew Yates and Derek Cummings @science.org

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August 16, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Submit your abstract for the 6th FRESH (fresh-cnrs.org) annual conference in the Evo Human Sciences, 4-5th November in Montpellier, with Profs Pascal Boyer & Lluis Quintana Murci - Submit and Register here before 15th of September shorturl.at/xhHgL. See you there!
Journées Annuelles des GDR CNRS FRESH et RESHAPE - Sciencesconf.org
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August 18, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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📣 We are excited (or should we say disgusted?) to announce the conference 'Disgust across borders' at IAST! @iast.fr

🗓️ Join us on Dec 4 & 5 for two days full of disgust research across species and disciplines.

Registration and abstract submission are open (until Aug 31): forms.gle/QBmkUB3aLDjY...
July 2, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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This is objectively true 👇 and is one reason the podcast is well worth your time

"Cristina is one of the most well-rounded and intensely fierce intellects in the evolutionary behavioral sciences. She's so charitable and willing to argue in a very positive way"
August 12, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Série d’été "Homo avant Sapiens" 4/6 – Comment nos ancêtres lointains pouvaient-ils faire partie de notre famille tout en étant d’une espèce différente ? Éléments de réponses à cet apparent paradoxe avec la paléoanthropologie, la génétique ou encore la philosophie.
De l’os à l’espèce humaine
lejournal.cnrs.fr
August 12, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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“Gender studies as a discipline…is defined by a set of debates and problematics.” In this 10-Minute Talk, Judith Butler FBA discusses gender as a field of study and its interdisciplinary contributions to research, social analysis and social movements.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEvH...
August 11, 2025 at 9:15 AM
🧵 New research in Social Science & Medicine: Female house ownership associated with better health outcomes for entire families. We studied 4,109 women in Meghalaya, the least patriarchal state of India, to understand which matrilineal practices actually improve health.. doi.org/10.1016/j.so...
Redirecting
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August 12, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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New manuscript "to help bridge the gap between behavioural ecologists and the broader social network analysis community"
🐒🕸️ New preprint! Confused about how to model animal social networks?

ASNA can be confusing—but also full of opportunity. We break down 5 common misunderstandings in animal social network analysis and share solutions from behavioural ecology, anthro, stats, & network science. Hope it helps!

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Five misunderstandings in animal social network analysis
ecoevorxiv.org
August 5, 2025 at 7:47 AM