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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…
Even chimpanzees and six-year-old infants want to punish antisocial behaviour
Living together in communities requires mutual cooperation. To achieve…
DNA analysis of present-day populations in the Chachapoyas region of Peru indicates that the original inhabitants were not uprooted en masse by the…
Max Planck researchers discover the oldest ever images of dogs on leashes
While conducting research in the Saudi Arabian desert, scientists from the…
Researchers show that vocalizing in chimpanzees is influenced by social cognitive processes
Adjusting communication to take into account information…
Bystanders monitor and intervene into grooming interactions of their group members if these threaten their own status or social relationships
Humans do…
The population of chimpanzees in West Africa has declined by over 80 percent in the last 20 years and in September 2016 they were classified as a…
Individual qualities matter more than group qualities when choosing a new friend from an ethnic or religious group other than one’s own
Despite the…
Neandertal DNA influences variation in skin tone and hair colour in people living today
After humans and Neandertals met many thousands of years ago,…
The genome of a European Neandertal allows more Neandertal DNA to be identified in present-day people
The high quality genome of a Neandertal from…
Newly adapted method allows researchers to collect body odour samples of mammals in a non-invasive manner
Mammals communicate with each other using…
Chimpanzees and orangutans look for information to fill gaps in their knowledge
It's a familiar problem: you leave the house and while closing the…
Chimpanzees refuse a less-preferred food reward from a human distributor - but not a machine - if they could have been given a better one
Researchers…
Stem cells communicate at the molecular level – within the cell and with other cells. Stem cell scientists understand this "conversation" of cells…
13-million-year-old “Alesi“, a fossil discovered in Kenya, sheds light on ape ancestry
The discovery in Kenya of a remarkably complete fossil ape…
Royal award for Max Planck Director
Jean-Jacques Hublin, Director of the Human Evolution Department at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary…
Researchers illuminate the epidemiology of a cryptic pathogen
Anthrax, a disease so far not associated with tropical rain forests, is common in the…
The teeth of hairless dogs teach researchers about the development and evolution of mammalian teeth
Hairless dog breeds differ from other dogs not only…
Female bonobos often tend to choose the same attractive male for mating, researchers observed
Bonobos have a reputation for being the peaceful,…
Apes only provide food to conspecifics that have previously assisted them
For us humans, it goes without saying that we reward others as an indication…
Territorial aggressions and instigating trespasses pay off among chimpanzees Many animals cooperate with group members because what they can achieve…
Scientists discover that three-dimensional liver buds grown in a dish from stem cells mimic the molecular signatures observed during the natural…
Scientists discover the oldest Homo sapiens fossils at Jebel Irhoud, Morocco
New finds of fossils and stone tools from the archaeological site of…
Using state-of-the-art methods researchers decipher the DNA of ancient elephants and discover their family relations to be quite different
New…
Researchers develop new analytical methods that help them estimate the size of wild animal populations from a distance
Camera traps are a useful means…
Researchers found that chimpanzees associate more with partners of the same sex while bonobos of either sex associate preferentially with females
Resea…
Researchers have developed a new method to retrieve hominin DNA from cave sediments – even in the absence of skeletal remains
While there are numerous…
Leipzig conservationist Julia Cissewski is one of this year’s five winners of the “Goldene Bild der Frau”, awarded for charitable work by Germany’s…
Household income and knowledge about health risks drive the consumption of wild animal meat in West Africa
New analyses of interview data collected in…
U-series (U-Th) dating of associated calcite formations constrains the age of the Middle Pleistocene cranium between 390,000 and 436,000 years.
An…
Interview with primate researcher Christophe Boesch
Christophe Boesch, the Director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in…
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…
