Biology

Upcoming seminars

Aliakbar Akbaritabar (Max Plank Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology, Department of Human Behavior, Culture and Ecology,), To be announced, IAST General Seminar, Toulouse: IAST, September 22, 2026, 11:30–12:30, room Auditorium 4 (First floor- TSE Building).

William Thompson (Berkeley University), To be announced, IAST General Seminar, Toulouse: IAST, November 10, 2026, 11:30–12:30, room Auditorium 4 (First floor- TSE Building).

Past seminars

Rebecca Saxe (MIT), What people learn from punishment, IAST General Seminar, Toulouse: IAST, June 9, 2026, 11:30–12:30, room Auditorium 3 (Ground floor - TSE Building).

Luseadra Joy McKerracher (Aarhus University), Food insecurity and changing food preferences in times of compounding crisis: A new evaluation of the insurance hypothesis, IAST General Seminar, Toulouse: IAST, May 26, 2026, 11:30–12:30, room Auditorium 5 (Second Floor - TSE Building).

Ludovic Maisonneuve ( IAST), When to learn from elders or peers: unraveling the factors shaping the evolution of exemplar age choice, IAST Lunch Seminar, Toulouse: IAST, March 20, 2026, 12:45–13:45, room Auditorium 4 (First floor - TSE Building).

Kelsey Allen (University of British Columbia), Physical problem-solving in minds and machines, IAST General Seminar, Toulouse: IAST, March 10, 2026, 11:30–12:30, room Auditorium 4 (First floor - TSE Building).

Jessica Perkins (Vanderbilt University), Social Influence in Context: Assessing and Leveraging Networks and Norms to Improve Health, IAST General Seminar, Toulouse: IAST, November 18, 2025, 11:30–12:30, room Auditorium 4 - (First floor - TSE Building).

Richard Wrangham (Harvard University), Impacts of alpha-alliances on human society and psychology, IAST Lunch Seminar, Toulouse: IAST, September 19, 2025, 12:45–13:45, room Auditorium 4 (First Floor - TSE Building).

Charles Mullon (University of Lausanne), Natural selection on environmentally-mediated social behaviours under ecological inheritance, IAST General Seminar, Toulouse: IAST, March 25, 2025, 11:30–12:30, room Auditorium 4 (First floor - TSE Building).

Raphaëlle Chaix (Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, France), DNA and the Post-Neolithic Rise of Patrilineal Systems in Humans, IAST General Seminar, Toulouse: IAST, March 4, 2025, 11:30–12:30, room Auditorium 4 (First floor - TSE Building).

Emily Burdett (University of Nottingham, UK), The ontogeny of human ingenuity: Exploring the factors that promote problem-solving and innovation in childhood, IAST General Seminar, Toulouse: IAST, October 8, 2024, 11:30–12:30, room Auditorium 4 (First floor - TSE Building).

Harvey Whitehouse, Distinguished Lecture: The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World, IAST General Seminar, Toulouse: IAST, June 5, 2024, Auditorium 3 Jean-Jacques Laffont.