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Conference by Bernard Lahire, sociologist, CNRS research director, Max Weber Center, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, director of collections at the Laboratoire des Sciences Sociales and Sciences sociales du vivant What if human societies were structured by a few major properties of the species and governed by general laws? What if they could be better understood by re-inscribing them in a long evolutionary history? Starting from these questions, Bernard Lahire formulates a unifying paradigm that synthesizes the knowledge relating to human and non-human social life accumulated in fields as different as evolutionary biology, ethology, paleoanthropology, prehistory, anthropology, history and sociology.