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The critically endangered Cross River gorilla inhabits a region of high biodiversity on the border of Nigeria and Cameroon but has been poorly…
Pre-Homo human ancestral species, such as Australopithecus africanus, used human-like hand postures much earlier than was previously thought
Some of…
Languages with a wide range of tone pitches have primarily developed in regions with high levels of humidity
The weather impacts not only upon our mood…
Chimpanzees modify their food calls with respect to tree size for a high valued fruit species.The vocalization capabilities of our closest living…
Sequencing of ancient DNA and genomes honoured as scientific breakthrough
One of the 2016 Breakthrough Prizes in Life Sciences was bestowed to Max…
Wild chimpanzees select nut-cracking tools taking account of up to five different factors
Are chimpanzees sensitive to the effect of an object’s…
Information on socio-economic development processes and their impact on the biodiversity in tropical Africa need to be taken into consideration when…
Very young children imitate their peers to fit in, while great apes tend to stick to their own preferences
Children and chimpanzees often follow the…
Wild chimpanzees plan their breakfast time, type and location
How do our close relatives, the chimpanzees, acquire sufficient food when times are lean?…
Researchers discover fragments of Neandertal DNA in the genome of a 45,000 year-old modern human from Siberia
A research team led by Svante Pääbo of…
Changes in the social environment can nevertheless speed up the development of a language's lexicon
The frequency with which we use different words…
Modern humans may have migrated into Austria around 43,500 years ago during a period with a cold steppe-like climate
A multinational team led by…
Lethal aggression in wild chimpanzees and bonobos is better explained by adaptive strategies than human impacts.
An international team of researchers…
Onset of puberty in female bonobos preceeds that of chimpanzees
Puberty is the threshold between childhood and adulthood. Behavior and appearance…
Positive emotional experiences may trigger spontaneous prospective memory retrievals in foraging chimpanzees
An international team of researchers from…
Max Planck researchers found that dogs and puppies can locate hidden food by using human voice direction referentially
Dogs and puppies are gifted at…
Prize winner Kathryn E. Fitzsimmons leads the working group for Luminescence Dating within the Department of Human Evolution at the Max Planck…
Max Planck researchers reveal relationships between rare languages in the Colombian Amazon
The only linguistic data available for Carabayo, a language…
An international team of researchers has for the first time deciphered the intestinal bacteria of present- day hunter-gatherers
The gut microbiota is…
Liberia is home to the second largest chimpanzee population in West Africa
When Liberia enters the news it is usually in the context of civil war,…
A team of interdisciplinary scientists arrived in Guinea April 2nd 2014 to investigate a possible epidemic of Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF) amongst…
Contemporary Europeans have as many as three times more Neanderthal variants in genes involved in lipid catabolism than Asians and Africans
Although…
An interactive world map of human genetic history reveals likely genetic impacts of historical events
When individuals from different groups…
Several thousand chimpanzees inhabit a remote forest area in the northern Democratic Republic of the Congo
With great ape populations in fast decline,…
Chimpanzees keep track of other group members’ bonding partners and use this knowledge in conflict situations
To know who your opponents’ family and…
Chimpanzees who share their food with others have higher levels of the hormone oxytocin in their urine
The ability to form long-term cooperative…
High-quality Neandertal genome provides novel insights into human origins
An international research team led by Kay Prüfer and Svante Pääbo of the Max…
Contrary to humans and chimpanzees bonobos retain elevated thyroid hormones well into adulthood
Despite the fact that chimpanzees and bonobos share…
Max Planck researchers sequence the mitochondrial genome of a 400,000-year-old hominin from Spain
Using novel techniques to extract and study ancient…
New world atlas of colonial-era languages reveals massive traces of African and Pacific source languages
A new large-scale database and atlas of key…
Searching for bountiful fruit crops in the rain forest, chimpanzees remember past feeding experiences
Where do you go when the fruits in your favourite…
New finds demonstrate: Neandertals were the first in Europe to make standardized and specialized bone tools – which are still in use today
Two…
During an individual’s lifetime the biomechanical requirements on his or her teeth change Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary…
In bonobos, attractive females are more likely to win conflicts against males
Female social dominance over males is rare among mammal species. Bonobos,…
Archaeologists find traces of flowering plants in grave linings that have been dated to 13,700-11,700 BP
Plants in particular flowers are a familiar…
Researchers show that already in infancy imitation promotes a general pro-social orientation toward others and, in early childhood, is a powerful…
Leipzig researchers have published new data on volcanic ash, known as the “Campanian Ignimbrite”, which covered wide parts of Europe
About 40,000…
Researchers found that adult wild chimpanzees have developed a certain immunity against malaria parasites
Wild great apes are widely infected with…
"Chimpanzee" is not a documentary film but still provides fascinating facts about our closest relatives
Next week the Disneynature film "Chimpanzee"…
Computer simulation shows that the reduction of natural dental wear might be the main cause for widely spread non-carius cervical lesions (the loss of…
Chimpanzees use Botanical Skills to Discover FruitFruit-eating animals are known to use their spatial memory to relocate fruit, yet, it is unclear how…
Max Planck researchers find stable isotope evidence of meat eating and hunting specialization in adult male chimpanzees
Observations of hunting and…
Remember your first summer camp, meeting a new group of children for the first time? Who would you want to be friends with? Who would you share your…
The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, in Leipzig, Germany, has completed the genome sequence of a Neandertal and makes the entire…
Geneticist Svante Pääbo from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthroplogy is to receive the US$500,000 Gruber Genetics Prize for…
Researchers found that in chimpanzees the hormone oxytocin is likely to play a key role in maintaining social relations with both kin and non-kin…
Ancient DNA has revealed that humans living some 40,000 years ago in the area near Beijing were likely related to many present-day Asians and Native…
Ancient Khoisan lineages survive in contemporary Bantu groups
An international team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary…
Long before Europeans settled in Australia humans had migrated from the Indian subcontinent to Australia and mixed with Australian aborigines
Australia…
Study questions informative value of dental microwear for dietary habits of extinct species
Dental microwear, the pattern of tiny marks on worn tooth…
