Public conferences (selection)
- Lucy, anatomie d’une chute. 50 ans après sa découverte, un fossile parmi d’autres ? Conference at the Espace Mendès France in Poitiers, France (link, 21/11/2024).
- Comment a évolué notre cerveau ? Une histoire vieille de 7 millions d’années racontée par les fossiles. Conference at the Espace Mendès France in Poitiers, France, within the frame of the Brain Awareness Week (link, 12/3/2024).
- Qui était Australopithecus ? Enquête au coeur des « Berceaux de l’Humanité ». Conference at the University of Poitiers within the frame of the Amphis du Savoir, France (link, 18/1/2024).
Medias (selection)

- Press release Les innovations méthodologiques peuvent-elles contribuer à faire progresser les recherches en paléoneurologie ?, CNRS (link, 2024).
- Press release Cartographier le cerveau de nos ancêtres : le projet EndoMap, CNRS (link, 2024).
- Interview “Okapi” about “Lucy” (link, 2024).
- Interview Radio-Canada (link, 2023).
- Interview Radio Télévisée Suisse (link, 2021).
- Interview “New Scientist” (link, 2020).
- Press release New technology allows scientists first glimpse of intricate details of Little Foot’s life, Diamond Light Source (Didcot, UK) (link, 2021).
- Interview France Inter (France), BBC 4 (UK), Radio-Canada (Canada) and CapeTalk (South Africa) (2021).
- Interview “The New York Times” How a human cousin adapted to a changing climate (link, 2020).
- Interview “Stop, Science” (link, 2019).
- Interview “LiveScience” New Fossil Reveals Face of Oldest Known ‘Lucy’ Relative (link, 2019).
- Interview “The Conversation” for the International Day of Women and Girls in Science (link, 2019).
- Press release Little Foot’s inner ear sheds light on her movement and behaviour, University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, South Africa) (link, 2019).
- Press release Peering into Little Foot’s 3.67 million-year-old brain, University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, South Africa) (link, 2018).
- Interview CNRS (link, 2018).
- Interview “La fabrique de l’histoire” (France culture) (link, 2018).
- Interview “Le journal de 20 heures” (TF1) (2018).
- Press release Cranium of a four-million-year-old hominin shows similarities to ours, University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, South Africa) (link, 2018).
- Interview Kumkani FM (East London, South Africa) (2018).
Dissemination articles (selection)
- Beaudet A. (2024) Comment notre cerveau a-t-il évolué ? The Conversation (link).
- Beaudet A. & Merceron G. (2024) La paléobiologie d’Australopithecus afarensis. Archeologia 636: 42-43 (link).
- Beaudet A. (2024) Le cerveau de « Lucy » et les siens. Dossiers d’Archéologie 426: 48-49 (link).
- Beaudet A. & Bruxelles L. (2020) Le saisissant atlas de Little Foot. Archeologia 587: 10-12 (link).
- Beaudet A. (2020) A tiny bone from Little Foot’s skeleton adds fresh insights into what our ancestors. The Conversation (link).
- Beaudet A. (2019) Virtual images reveal secrets of an ancient fossil’s brain and inner ear. The Conversation (link).
- Dumoncel J., Beaudet A. et al. (2019). Le cerveau caché. In: Gex J.-P. (Ed.) Voir l’invisible: Comprendre – Agir. Tome 2. Puits Fleuris, Saint-Just-La-Pendue, p. 16-17 (link).
- Beaudet A. (2018) Explorer le passé à Sterkfontein: comment l’examen virtuel des restes fossiles participe à la (re)découverte de notre histoire. Lesedi 20: 38-45 (link).
Newsletters
- Beaudet A. & Stratford D. (2017) A High Resolution Microtomographic Study of the StW 578 Pliocene Hominid Cranium from Sterkfontein Cave. GAES newsletter (link).
Exhibitions in museums
- Scientific expert for the Sciences.live podcast “Etre ou ne pas être…humains” developped by the Espace Mendès France (France, link).
- Scientific expert for the temporary exhibition “Face to Face” at the visitor center of the “Cradle of Humankind” at Maropeng (South Africa).
- Scientific expert for the permanent exhibition at the visitor center of the “Cradle of Humankind” at Maropeng (South Africa) on human evolution.