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pablovarase.bsky.social
Pablo J. Varas Enríquez
@pablovarase.bsky.social
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Why humans (and other organisms) have babies? (from an evolutionary perspective) 👶🤔 | Research fellow in @iast.fr 🇫🇷👨‍🎓| Latino | Spanglish
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No se pierda este 10 de diciembre de 2025 el workshop en Evolución Biocultural!

Estaremos hablando de salud, comportamiento y evolución! 🤓

Link de inscripción aquí 👇

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November 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Finishing the 12th EconBio Workshop with a panel discussion together with @richardakresh.bsky.social , @ruthmace.bsky.social , Pat Monaghan, and Ronald Lee to talk about the next steps in the interdisciplinary study of the evolution of the human life cycle #lifehistory @iast.fr
June 3, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Last talk in the 12th EconBio Workshop at @iast.fr with Ronald Lee presenting some work on the relationship between reproduction and production in a social context, especially about increasing returns, reproductive skew, and group size #lifehistory @piretavila.bsky.social
June 3, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Now listening to @bentrumble.bsky.social about the evolutionary context under which chronic diseases have developed and its relation to ageing at the 12th EconBio Workshop #lifehistory @iast.fr @piretavila.bsky.social
June 3, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Starting the ageing and menopause session in the 12th EconBio Workshop at @iast.fr with a talk by Pat Monaghan about the evolution of a post-reproductive stage in humans and other species #lifehistory @piretavila.bsky.social
June 3, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Attending an interesting talk
from Siwan Anderson on the moral values and gender differences regarding intimate partner violence acceptance at the 12th EconBio Workshop #lifehistory @iast.fr @piretavila.bsky.social @olkcampbell.bsky.social
June 3, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Listening to a wonderful talk by Raphaëlle Chaix at the 12th EconBio Workshop on the influence of kynship systems on gender norms and the timing of patrilineal and patrilocal societies in human populations using genetic evidence #lifehistory @iast.fr @piretavila.bsky.social @olkcampbell.bsky.social
June 3, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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Starting the 2nd day of the 12th EconBio Workshop with an intriguing talk from @siobhancully.bsky.social about the gender contributions - and biases - on the evolution of the human life cycle #lifehistory @iast.fr @piretavila.bsky.social @olkcampbell.bsky.social
June 3, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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Now moving into how social safety nets and policies relate to parental decisions in child development by a wonderful talk from @richardakresh.bsky.social at the 12th EconBio Workshop at @iast.fr #lifehistory @piretavila.bsky.social
June 2, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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Now listening to Willem Frankenhuis in the 12th EconBio Workshop talking about the influence of stressful environments in the evolution of human development, especially about developmental plasticity @iast.fr @piretavila.bsky.social #lifehistory
June 2, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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Starting the 12th Economy and Biology workshop in @iast.fr with an amazing talk looking to the past and early evolution of childhood and teenage development during the Upper Paleolithic by April Nowell #lifehistory
June 2, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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Today I officially started as a Research Fellow in @iastoulouse.bsky.social 🇫🇷 thanks for the welcoming day (and the goodies!). I’m excited to work in such an interdisciplinary environment where I’ll keep talking about babies, evolution…but this time spiced up with some culture 👶 🤓 👀
May 15, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Amazing work on the marriage patterns in Vanuatu showing the complexity behind residence patterns! 🇻🇺

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April 17, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Interesting talk showing the complexities behind the relationship between sex ratio and intrasexual competition 🤔

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April 17, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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Interesting theoretical work showing how the binary classifications of patri-/matri- residence norms are not good enough to show the complexity of human societies

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April 16, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Interesting method using causal inference in phylogenetic and comparative analyses 🤓💻

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April 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Very thorough analysis on the long-term consequences of COVID-19 in postnatal depression and fertility desires in the UK 🦠🇬🇧

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April 16, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Very stimulating plenary talk about how the cultural organisation of reproduction has been crucial for human evolutionary success 🤓

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April 16, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Great theoretical work showing how cultural mechanisms related to birth spacing and cultural menopause influence demographic outcomes in a human population 💻👶

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April 15, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Amazing work from @abbeyepage.bsky.social showing that in the Agta the lower direct care from grandmothers mitigate be related to a narrower “helping window”
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April 15, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Interesting talk on the influence of allocare during the COVID-19 lockdowns in the UK 🤔

It takes a village to rise a baby! but we still don’t know how 👶

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April 15, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Really cool and interesting talk showing the high diversity of infant feeding practices and the moral views related to them in rural Poland!

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April 15, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Very interesting talk about the influence of humans on the behaviour of wild primates 👀 🐵

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April 14, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Ready for some days talking about human evolution and behaviour 🤓

Looking forward to some interesting research!

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April 14, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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🚨CALL FOR POSTERS🚨

Last days for you to apply, and attend, the 12th EconBio Workshop on “Sex Differences in Human Life History Evolution”!

Just send your CV+abstract+cover letter before March 31 to econbio_poster@iast.fr

More info in www.iast.fr/conferences/...

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March 27, 2025 at 8:31 AM