Thierry Lodé

Who is Thierry Lodé?

Thierry Lodé is a French biologist, born in Tarbes in 1956. He is a professor of evolutionary ecology in the CNRS Units ETHOS. As vice president of council for natural and biodiversity preservation, Lodé contributes in conservation biology, chiefly carnivores and aquatic fauna.

His work deals mainly with sexual conflict, stressing that sexuality appears as a confrontation between males and females. "No norms, he said, no exclusive behaviors exist in natural sexuality but variations of sexual behaviors, from homosexuality to polygyny". Resulting in an antagonistic co-evolution, the sexual conflict leads to speciation i.e., the development of new species.

Lodé wrote more than 80 international scientific papers and four books.