Digital publication of Prof. Lluis Quintana-Murci's opening lecture in English

Lluis Quintana-Murci

A Genetic Tale: Our Diversity, our Evolution, our Adaptation

The biological diversity of humans is immense: from our physical appearance to our various abilities to digest certain foods, our relationships with pathogens, and our susceptibility to certain diseases. But what are the origins and factors that shape this diversity? What is the respective contribution of environmental and genetic factors to the phenotypic diversity observed in humans today? How do natural selection and the demographic history of our species shape the genetic diversity of human populations? The aim of my inaugural lecture is to show how all these questions are being tackled using evolutionary and human genomic approaches.

Quintana-Murci Ll., A Genetic Tale: Our Diversity, our Evolution, our Adaptation, translation by Liz Libbrecht, Paris, Collège de France, Inaugural Lectures, 2024.

This book was published with the support of theFondation du Collège de France.

Lluis Quintana-Murci is a population geneticist. Director of research at the CNRS and professor at the Institut Pasteur, he is recognized worldwide for his work on the diversity of the human genome and his multidisciplinary approach integrating population genetics, epidemiology and immunology. He is a professor at the Collège de France, holding the Chair of Human Genomics and Evolution, since April 2019.