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Nature magazine includes Max Planck researcher in its list of top ten personalities that most influenced science in 2018
Starting with a tiny piece…
DNA fragments from Neandertals in the human genome shed light on brain evolution A characteristic feature of modern humans is the unusually round…
Orangutans spontaneously bend straight wires into hooks to fish for food
The bending of a hook into wire to fish for the handle of a basket is…
Despite government claims, orangutan populations have not increased
Orangutan populations are still declining rapidly, despite claims by the Indonesian…
To recognize conspecifics chimpanzees use their sense of smell Primates, including humans, are usually thought of as visual animals with reduced…
Bonobos make themselves appear smaller than they actually areIn general, one cannot only see how tall an animal or a person is, one can also hear it,…
Facial resemblance of rhesus macaques with their parents increases with ageMost humans are good at identifying pairs of close relatives amongst the…
Chimpanzee are selective when it comes to sharing food: friends and individuals who helped acquiring the food benefit more often
Why share food with…
New find indicates the appearance of a unique technological complex in North Africa around 90,000 years ago A single bone artefact found in a…
New findings have high relevance for understanding regeneration in mammals
Among all four-legged animals, the ability of salamanders to replace lost…
Active participation in group-hunts earns wild chimpanzees meat access The gains from cooperative hunting and meat sharing are seen as fundamental…
The splay of tooth roots reveals how South African hominins, Australopithecus africanus and Paranthropus robustus, chewed their foodEver since the…
Newly-sequenced genome sheds lights on interactions between ancient homininsUp until 40,000 years ago, at least two groups of hominins inhabited…
Chimpanzee foods are mechanically more demanding than previously thought and might give clues about the evolution of the chewing apparatus in…
Mangabey monkeys get free access to fresh tropical nuts by profiting from the nut-cracking skills of chimpanzees and the strong jaws of hogsAn…
Not only the attractiveness of a potential grooming partner matters to wild chimpanzees and sooty mangabeys, their choice also depends on who is…
Humans did not stem from a single ancestral population in one region of Africa, as is often claimed. Instead, our African ancestors were diverse in…
Chimpanzee pant hoots are longer and more salient when males combine it with the "leaf clip" gesture
Similar to humans, non-human primates combine…
The director at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig is honoured for his pioneering achievements in the field of…
International research team investigates intuitive ability of chimpanzees
For decades, scientists assumed that statistical abilities were closely…
Researchers propose new framework to compare human and nonhuman animal turn-taking skills empirically and to shed further light on the evolutionary…
The population of mountain gorillas in the Virunga Volcanoes has more than doubled in the past three decades A recent census of the critically…
The need for cooperation may facilitate call diversificationAn important question in the evolution of language is what caused animal calls to…
Regulating their body temperature to prevent overheating is a burden for chimpanzees living in the African savanna
When humans started settling in…
Massive study finds more gorillas and chimpanzees than previously thought, but 80% are outside the safe havens of protected areas
A study estimates…
Amazonian Bora people mimic the rhythm of their language for communication over large distances using drums
How can an entire language be mapped onto…
The new field of palaeoproteomics, harnessing cutting-edge techniques to analyze ancient proteins, is growing quickly. Researchers set out standards…
New chronological data for the Middle Pleistocene glacial cycles push back the first glaciation and early human appearance in central Germany by about…
The genomes of five late Neandertals provide insights into Neandertal population history
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary…
Researchers find connections from Moroccan Stone Age dwellers to ancient Near Eastern and sub-Saharan African populations
An international team of…
The enigmatic 300,000-year-old South African hominin ate a lot of dust, grit, or phytoliths, silica ‘plant stones’
Homo naledi’s relatively taller…
As early as 64,000 years ago Iberian Neanderthals created cave paintings
At least 70,000 years ago Homo sapiens used perforated marine shells and…
Global demand for natural resources has reduced the number of orangutans by more than 100,000 animals in the last 16 years
Nearly 50 years of…
Homo sapiens fossils demonstrate a gradual evolution of the human brain towards its modern globular shape
In a paper researchers from the Max Planck…
