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Unravelling the mystery of parrot longevity

Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture

Bigger brains have led some species of parrot to live surprisingly long lives, new research shows

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Studying the evolution, the distribution and the psychology of word families

Linguistic and Cultural Evolution

An ERC Consolidator Grant was awarded to Johann-Mattis List, a research group leader in the Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution at the Max…

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Exploring ancient Tuberculosis transmission chains

Archaeogenetics

New details about tuberculosis’ evolutionary history in ancient South America point to a complex web of disease transmission in the pre-colonial…

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New insights into the genetic history of Tibetans and their neighbors

Archaeogenetics

Ancient genomes from the Himalayas illuminate the genetic history of Tibetans and their Tibeto-Burman speaking neighbors

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Genetic and behavioral approaches to primate evolution

Primate Behavior and Evolution

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, welcomes Jenny Tung as new Director

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Covid-19 genetic risk variant protects against HIV

Evolutionary Genetics

A Covid-19 risk variant inherited from Neandertals reduces a person’s risk of contracting HIV by 27 percent

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Reacting to a changing environment involves inhibiting previous behavior

Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture

Researchers are investigating the cognitive abilities that allow animals to react to a rapidly changing environment

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Several million euros in EU funding for Max Planck early career researchers

Evolutionary Genetics

Eleven Max Planck projects receive starter grants from the European Research Councils (ERC); humanities and social sciences lead the internal ranking

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Modern humans developed a more effective protection against oxidative stress

Evolutionary Genetics

Neanderthal variant of the protein glutathione reductase increases risk for inflammatory bowel disease and vascular disease

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Challenging "rule breakers"

Comparative Cultural Psychology

Children will confront their peers, but how they do so varies across cultures

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DNA in archaeological sediments

Evolutionary Genetics

Ancient human and animal DNA can remain stably localized in sediments, preserved in microscopic fragments of bone and feces

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Molecular Analysis Reveals the Oldest Denisovan Fossils Yet

Evolutionary Genetics

Denisova Cave has yielded new Denisovan remains associated with archaeological artifacts in its lowermost layers dating to 200,000 years ago

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Those that game together, stay together

Comparative Cultural Psychology

The games we play reflect the socio-ecological characteristics of the culture that we are in

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Genetic changes in Bronze Age southern Iberia

Archaeogenetics

DNA from 136 ancient Iberians reveals genomic and social transformations during the Copper Age to Bronze Age transition in southwestern Europe

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The surprising origins of the Tarim Basin mummies

Archaeogenetics

Genomic study reveals an indigenous Bronze Age population that was genetically isolated but culturally cosmopolitan

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Archaeogenetics: Five global ethical principles

Archaeogenetics

Scientists from all over the world have published guidelines for how human remains should be handled

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Early modern human from Southeast Asia adapted to a rainforest environment

Human Evolution

New insights into the diet of our species' earliest member in the tropical rainforest of Southeast Asia

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Early Homo sapiens groups in Europe faced subarctic climates

Human Evolution

New insights into the climatic backdrop for an early wave of dispersal of our species into Europe during the last glacial period

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Climatically driven landscape evolution during warm periods

Human Evolution

New puzzle piece for understanding future natural systems

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Prehistoric humans rarely mated with their cousins

Archaeogenetics

Scientists screened 1,785 ancient humans genomes from the last 45,000 years for parental relatedness

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