Evolutionary demography society 8th annual meeting 29-31 March 2023 Paris (France)

Board meeting

Meeting of the Society Board

Human demography

› Keynote: What Underlies Ecological Variation in Human Fertility? - Gillian R. Bentley, Department of Anthropology [Durham University] 09:40-10:10 (30min)

› Mothers with higher twinning propensity had lower fertility in pre-industrial Europe - Alexandre Courtiol, Leibniz Insitute for Zoo and Wildlife and Research 10:10-10:20 (10min)

› Lifetime reproductive success provides a novel perspective on fertility change - Sha Jiang, Stanford University 10:20-10:30 (10min)

› Does the proportion of sons influence lifespan of preindustrial Quebec women ? - Lucas Invernizzi, Département écologie évolutive [LBBE] 10:30-10:40 (10min)

› Network Effects of Demographic Transition - Tamas David-Barrett, University of Oxford [Oxford] 10:40-10:50 (10min)

› Did violence caused the post-Neolithic Y chromosome bottleneck? A peaceful alternative scenario. - Léa Guyon, Éco-Anthropologie 10:50-11:00 (10min)

Coffee break

Human demography

› A functional explanation for religion unites alloparenting and demography - Rebecca Sear, Evolutionary Demography Group, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine 11:30-11:40 (10min)

› The consequences of increasing adult prevalence of chronic diseases linked with obesity on the “grandmother effect” - Néstor Aldea, ECHO project, IEGD-CSIC (Spanish National Research Council), Institut national d'études démographiques, Institut de Démographie 11:40-11:50 (10min)

From the past into the future

Shripad Tuljapurkar, Stanford University

Concluding remarks

S. Cubaynes & S. Pavard

Lunch

Workshop 1 Kinship networks, genealogies and relatedness in structured populations

H. Caswell, S. Jiang, D. Alburez-Gutierrez & C. Coste

Workshop 2 (R)evolutionary demography

R. Salguero-Gómez & O.R. Jones

Workshop 3 Human mortality estimation for the oldest-old: an introduction

C-G Camarda

Planning