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Abstract Adaptation to climate change is not just about natural processes or human decisions alone: it emerges from the many relationships among people, within ecosystems, and between society and nature. Around the globe, societies respond in different …

Abstract Ever since his discovery in 1856, Neanderthal has been the subject of numerous figurative representations, almost systematically on scientific grounds. The results of these associations between artists and scientists have not escaped numerous …

Abstract As Gérard Genette rightly pointed out, we don't read books as "  tabulae rasae   ". We never read a text without first going through paratexts, such as the author's name, title, preface or commentary. In other words, the reader is psychologically …

Abstract Wetlands are the world's largest reservoirs of carbonaceous organic matter. They help mitigate extreme climatic events (floods and droughts), purify water and preserve biodiversity. However, 85 % of wetlands were lost in three  hundred  years ; …

Abstract This presentation looks at the texts, tools and actions that are used and carried out to prevent and manage the introduction of invasive alien species, particularly in terms of regulations, biosecurity, awareness-raising and mobilization. Arnaud …

Documents and media Download support Abstract Hox genes and tail formation. Approached through global analysis of intraspecific evolutionary variants and targeted gain-of-function studies. This fourth lesson begins with a brief reminder of some key points …

Abstract This lecture will introduce the field of functional ecology. After a definition and a brief history, it will present the functional traits that enable a general understanding of the responses of organisms to environmental gradients on the basis …

Documents and media Download support Abstract The poem about time in Eccl 3:1-9 is one of the best-known texts in the book of Qohelet. According to this poem, there is a definite moment and time for every event under heaven. Although the poem differs in …

Abstract Five seminar sessions will be devoted entirely to an exceptional unpublished Greek text spanning 255 verses and preserved in the first six columns of the recto of a large roll of Greek magic papyrus (III rd -IV th  century AD), unearthed in …

Documents and media Download support Abstract This strange tale tells of a tormented king who, in the absence of communication with his tutelary deity, makes a disguised visit to a necromancer to bring Samuel up from Sheol. She succeeds, but Samuel's …

Robert F. Campany (Vanderbilt University) , invited by the Collège de France assembly at the suggestion of Professor Anne Cheng, will take part in the seminar with a lecture entitled "  Authenticity, Authentification and Transmutation in Late Classical …