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Abstract The question of how heritable mutations arise is one of long-standing interest in biology. In the case of bacteria, there was a debate about whether mutations arise as a consequence of adaptation to selective pressure from the environment, or …

Marie Amalric Marie Amalric is a cognitive scientist and post-doctoral associate at the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, University of Trento, and the Harvard Department of Psychology, as well as a junior professor at INSERM. Her research focuses on the …

Liam Murphy is invited by the assembly of the Collège de France, on the proposal of Pr   Samantha Besson. As part of the agreement signed between Collège de France and New York University. Frontispiece to Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan" (1651). Public domain. …

Abstract The sequencing of the human genome has taught us that the majority of our genetic differences are made up of extra pages, missing pages and/or pages whose order is altered in our "   encyclopedia of life   ". These variations in the architecture …

Abstract This lecture will address a major question in human genomics and public health  : how do genetics and the environment interact in the development of disease  ? We'll start by examining how the environment -   the exposome   - can affect our …

La vidéo sera disponible prochainement. Abstract Inequalities in health, a phenomenon as old as it is universal, represent a major challenge for social justice. Health statistics attest to their scale in every country in the world. Numerous studies, most …

Abstract Taking as its starting point the only medical teaching contract on papyrus known to date, this book examines the concrete conditions of access to the medical profession in Greco-Roman Egypt. What do papyri tell us about the training of future …

Abstract In 1948, when the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it affirmed "   that the United Nations cannot remain indifferent to the fate of minorities   ". Nevertheless, it decided "   not to deal with the question …

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Abstract Chapters 7-10 present several accounts of conquest. Before the conquest of the city of Ai (Jos 8), chapter 7 relates a case of non-compliance with the ritual of the interdict. Jos 9 raises the question of cohabitation instead of conquest, and Jos …

Abstract Following on from the Homeric Hymn to Demeter in the previous lecture, this lesson focuses on the Hymn to Hermes. Like other works of the same type, this hymn explores the timē of the god, the honors that should accrue to him. The son of the …

Abstract What a strange thing it is to have as a profession that of acting ! While theater addresses a collective body, present here and now, in a form that will never be reproduced identically, cinema seeks to create the intimate, reproduced and diffused …

Abstract The idea that the individual was susceptible to cultivation also drew the attention of XVIIIᵉ   century writers to the problem of defining the individual, and to the question of his ability to reinvent himself. In this lecture, I will examine …

Abstract Faced with the growing success of discourses that make climate change the driving force behind the successes and (above all) the failures of ancient societies, we need to give a voice to the actors -   humans and non-humans alike   - of …

Abstract The Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5 was the first modern warfare of the twentieth century. Japan won the war against Russia which had the largest land army in the world at the time. In this lecture, we focus on the personal war diaries of Japanese …