A new series of studies, in collaboration with the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies of the CNR of Rome, Italy and the Institute Jean Nicod of the CNRS of Paris, investigated whether some features of money may be traced back to the exchange habits of capuchin monkeys, a South-American primate species whose lineage split from ours more than 35 million years ago.
A new Toulouse-led scientific study published in Science reveals that on Drosophila melanogaster fruit flies can pass on cultural practices - including sexual preferences - from generation to generation, hence influencing the long term evolution of the species.
New study published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B links biological evolution to culture and environment
In 2016, researchers at CNRS (members of TSE – Université Toulouse Capitole), MIT, Harvard University and the University of British Columbia launched the “Moral Machine” online platform to ask users about moral dilemmas facing us in the development of autonomous vehicles. The researchers gathered 40 million decisions from millions of web users worldwide. The results show global moral preferences that may guide decision makers and companies in the future. The analysis of this data was published in Nature on October 24, 2018.
New research published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B shows for the first time evidence of female competition and reproductive suppression over paternal care in the wild chacma baboons.