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In violent intergroup conflicts between chimpanzee groups the hormone oxytocin enhances the social affiliation among members of the same group
The high…
Findings from Lapa do Santo show oldest evidence in the continent of humans performing elaborated funerary rituals based on the manipulation and…
Max Planck researchers found chimpanzees routinely fish for algae during the dry season in Bakoun, Guinea, using long and robust sticks as a tool
Chimp…
Support from family and friends significantly reduces stress in wild chimpanzees – during conflicts with rival groups and during everyday affiliation
I…
Ancient Britons' teeth reveal people were 'highly mobile' 4,000 years ago
Archaeologists have created a new database from the teeth of prehistoric…
Bonobos, chimpanzees and orangutans understand that others can be convinced of something that is not true
We all know that the way someone sees the…
First in-depth comparison of human and chimpanzee neural stem cells uncovers unexpected differences
Our similarities and differences to chimpanzees,…
Three-year-olds quickly absorb social norms. They even understand behaviors as rule-governed that are not subject to any norms, and insist that others…
Scientists find the greatest number of small ear ossicles known from Neandertals so far and compare them to the ossicles of modern humans
A research…
Researchers decode ancient proteins of Châtelperronian Neandertals
The Châtelperronian of central France and northern Spain is critical to the debate…
Ernst Schering Foundation awards Friedmund Neumann Prize 2016 to junior scientist Barbara Treutlein for her outstanding work on single cell…
Orangutan Rocky could provide the key to understanding how speech in humans evolved from the time of the ancestral great apes
Previously it was thought…
1.5-million-year-old footprints provide window to the life of Homo erectus
Fossil bones and stone tools can tell us a lot about human evolution, but…
An international team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and the Félix Houphouët Boigny…
Sexual swellings are unreliable signals of fertility in female bonobos
In several species of primates, males often discern when to mate with a female…
Our closest relatives were born with wide bodies and robust bones
If a Neandertal were to sit down next to us on the underground, we would probably…
Researchers paint a genetic portrait of Ice Age Europe
By analyzing genome-wide data from the remains of 51 humans who lived between 45,000 and 7,000…
Five-year-olds affect the reputation of others through gossip
When it comes to selecting a cooperation partner, information about another person’s…
Tooth-marks on a 500,000-year-old femur from Morocco indicate hominin hunting or scavenging by large carnivores
An international team of researchers…
Researchers find differences between ethnic groups living as farmers and those engaged in traditional hunter-gatherer activities
Scientists have long…
More local adaptations in European genes were contributed by Stone Age hunters than farmers
Modern humans have adapted to their local environments over…
Analysis of nuclear DNA from Sima de los Huesos hominins provides evidence of their relationship to Neandertals
Previous analyses of the hominins from…
More Sumatran orangutans live in the wild than previously thought, yet continuing deforestation is likely to substantially reduce their number
Sumatran…
Newly discovered stone tool-use behavior and accumulation sites in wild chimpanzees reminiscent to human cairns
Chimpanzees often use tools to extract…
Reintroduction of genetically distinct subspecies has led to hybridization in an endangered wild population
As their natural habitats continue to be…
Researchers find evolution of human teeth to be much simpler than previously thought, and can predict the sizes of teeth missing from hominin fossils
A…
Researchers find first genetic evidence of modern human DNA in a Neanderthal individual
Using several different methods of DNA analysis, an…
To find energy-rich food, like tropical ripe fruit, is a challenge for chimpanzees
In our supermarkets we buy raspberries in winter and chestnuts in…
Max Planck researchers found that our closest relatives, too, trust their friends
It almost goes without saying that trust is a defining element of…
The mixing of archaic human forms played an important role in shaping the immune system of modern humans
When modern humans met Neanderthals in Europe…
