High-quality Neandertal genome provides novel insights into human origins

An international research team led by Kay Prüfer and Svante Pääbo of the Max…

Contrary to humans and chimpanzees bonobos retain elevated thyroid hormones well into adulthood

Despite the fact that chimpanzees and bonobos share…

Max Planck researchers sequence the mitochondrial genome of a 400,000-year-old hominin from Spain

Using novel techniques to extract and study ancient…

New world atlas of colonial-era languages reveals massive traces of African and Pacific source languages

A new large-scale database and atlas of key…

Searching for bountiful fruit crops in the rain forest, chimpanzees remember past feeding experiences

Where do you go when the fruits in your favourite…

New finds demonstrate: Neandertals were the first in Europe to make standardized and specialized bone tools – which are still in use today

Two…

During an individual’s lifetime the biomechanical requirements on his or her teeth change

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary…

In bonobos, attractive females are more likely to win conflicts against males

Female social dominance over males is rare among mammal species. Bonobos,…

Archaeologists find traces of flowering plants in grave linings that have been dated to 13,700-11,700 BP

Plants in particular flowers are a familiar…

Researchers show that already in infancy imitation promotes a general pro-social orientation toward others and, in early childhood, is a powerful…

Leipzig researchers have published new data on volcanic ash, known as the “Campanian Ignimbrite”, which covered wide parts of Europe

About 40,000…

Researchers found that adult wild chimpanzees have developed a certain immunity against malaria parasites

Wild great apes are widely infected with…

"Chimpanzee" is not a documentary film but still provides fascinating facts about our closest relatives

Next week the Disneynature film "Chimpanzee"…

Computer simulation shows that the reduction of natural dental wear might be the main cause for widely spread non-carius cervical lesions (the loss of…

Chimpanzees use Botanical Skills to Discover Fruit

Fruit-eating animals are known to use their spatial memory to relocate fruit, yet, it is unclear how…

Max Planck researchers find stable isotope evidence of meat eating and hunting specialization in adult male chimpanzees

Observations of hunting and…

Remember your first summer camp, meeting a new group of children for the first time? Who would you want to be friends with? Who would you share your…

The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, in Leipzig, Germany, has completed the genome sequence of a Neandertal and makes the entire…

Geneticist Svante Pääbo from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthroplogy is to receive the US$500,000 Gruber Genetics Prize for…

Researchers found that in chimpanzees the hormone oxytocin is likely to play a key role in maintaining social relations with both kin and non-kin…

Ancient DNA has revealed that humans living some 40,000 years ago in the area near Beijing were likely related to many present-day Asians and Native…

Ancient Khoisan lineages survive in contemporary Bantu groups

An international team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary…

Long before Europeans settled in Australia humans had migrated from the Indian subcontinent to Australia and mixed with Australian aborigines

Australia…

Study questions informative value of dental microwear for dietary habits of extinct species

Dental microwear, the pattern of tiny marks on worn tooth…