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New high precision radiocarbon dates of bone collagen show that a cultural exchange may have taken place between modern humans and Neanderthals more…
Genetics reveals the shared history of southern and eastern African hunter-gatherers
Populations in southern Africa that speak non-Bantu languages…
The first continent-wide perspective of the distribution of African ape habitat shows dramatic declines in recent years.
Over the last 30 years, great…
Max Planck researchers describe Denisovan genome, illuminating the relationships between Denisovans and present-day humans
The analyses of an…
Researchers have revealed that chimpanzees are not only capable of learning from one another, but also use this social information to form and…
New finds from Dikika, Ethiopia, push back the first stone tool use and meatconsumption by almost one million years and provide the first evidence…
New Kenyan Fossils Shed Light on the Evolution of the Genus Homo
Exciting new fossils discovered east of Lake Turkana confirm that there were two…
For the first time, researchers have found plant remains in the two-million-year-old dental plaque of ancient hominins’ teeth
The first direct evidence…
Max Planck scientists have completed the genome of the bonobo - the final great ape to be sequenced
In a project led by the Max Planck Institute for…
Despite similar ecological conditions neighboring chimpanzee groups use different hammers to crack nuts
Culture has long been proposed to be a…
Animals get stressed too: A new study on bonobos, one of our closest living relatives, reveals that life in the rainforest can be stressful
The results…
The Disneynature production “Chimpanzee” provides us with a fascinating insight into the life of our next closest relatives, chimpanzees
Oscar, Freddy…
In humans and chimpanzees knowledge is transmitted within a group by means of a majority principle
The transmission of knowledge to the next…
The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, in Leipzig, Germany, has completed the genome sequence of a Denisovan, a representative of an…
Dominant males invest in friendly relationships with females
Mate competition by males over females is common in many animal species. During mating…
Foundation of the Max Planck Weizmann Center for Integrative Archaeology and Anthropology in Rehovot/Israel
A new element is being brought in to the…
Research suggests that great apes are capable of calculating the odds before taking risks.
Chimpanzees, orangutans, gorillas and bonobos make more…
