Fyssen Foundation – 30 years anniversary

Welcome by Philippe DESCOLA
Introduction by Jacques

  • PERRIAULT and Jean-Pierre CHANGEUX
    Human Evolution
  • Harvey WHITEHOUSE : Whence and whither social anthropology ?
    Chairman : Maurice GODELIER
  • Luigi L. CAVALLI-SFORZA : The relative importance of cultural and biological factors in human evolution
    Chairman : Sander VAN DER
  • LEEUW
    Robert FOLEY : Human evolutionary prehistory : towards an integrated approach
    Chairman : Jean CHAVAILLON
    Ethology
  • Pierre JAISSON : Is there still something to learn from the behaviour of ants for general biologgy ?
  • Marc HAUSER : Evolving a mind for reciprocity and spite
    Chairwoman : Elisabetta VISALBERGHI
    Molecular Biology
  • Brigitte KIEFFER : The opioid receptor : from a concept to a visible molecule in the brain
  • Jacques MALLET : Maternal serotonin is crucial for murine embryonic development
    Chairman : Henri KORN
    Neurosciences
  • Wolf SINGER : The brain, a complex self-organizing system
  • Tim SHALLICE : The uneven development of cognitive neuroscience
    Chairman : Michel IMBERT
    Cognitive Sciences
  • David PREMACK : A new theory of human intelligence
  • Stanislas DEHAENE : The neural code for numbers
    Chairman : Joseph LEDOUX
    Final discussion : Philippe DESCOLA