Knowledge Across Frontiers

A unified scientific project studying human behavior

"Modern scientific approaches are becoming increasingly trans-disciplinary"

Sergey Gavrilets, Distinguished Professor, University of Tennessee

"Interdisciplinary institutions that manage to do things well are a dream"

Eldar Shafir, Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs, Princeton University

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IAST Magazine #15 is out !

Is physical attractiveness objective? What makes human bodies unique compared to other animals?

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Campus

IAST-TSE Summer School

3 weeks from May 25 to June 12

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Research

Simultaneous hermaphrodites

Research team develops new understanding of egg trading by hermaphrodite animals

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Awards

Gonçalo Faria

Congratulations to Gonçalo Faria for receiving the Sir Kenneth Mather Memorial Prize

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Research

Free Market or Socialism

Have Economists Really Anything to Say? by Andrea Attar and Thomas Mariotti, posted on Institute for New Economic Thinking's blog

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Research

On the Origin of Beauty

The Science of Sexual Attraction by Jeann Bovet

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Events

Workshop on Animal Condition

on March 4, Toulouse (in french)

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Coming up soon, in Toulouse or further afield

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Understanding fundamental determinants of human behavior
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