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Research publications 2013
April 24, 2013
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 enamel and dentine at the base of the crown) in our teeth
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April 10, 2013
Chimpanzees use botanical skills to discover fruit
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March 25, 2013
Max Planck researchers find stable isotope evidence of meat eating and hunting specialization in adult male chimpanzees
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January 23, 2013
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 cooperation partners
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January 21, 2013
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 Americans
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January 17, 2013
Ancient Khoisan lineages survive in contemporary Bantu groups
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January 14, 2013
Long before Europeans settled in Australia humans had migrated from the Indian subcontinent to Australia and mixed with Australian aborigines
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January 09, 2013
Study questions informative value of dental microwear for dietary habits of extinct species
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Research publications 2012
October 29, 2012
New high precision radiocarbon dates of bone collagen show that a cultural exchange may have taken place between modern humans and Neanderthals more than 40,000 years ago.
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October 16, 2012
Genetics reveals the shared history of southern and eastern African hunter-gatherers
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September 25, 2012
The first continent-wide perspective of the distribution of African ape habitat shows dramatic declines in recent years
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August 31, 2012
An interview with Matthias Meyer from the Max Planck Institut of Evolutionary Anthropology about the new analyses of the Denisova genome
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August 30, 2012
Max Planck researchers describe Denisovan genome, illuminating the relationships between Denisovans and present-day humans
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August 29, 2012
Different chimp communities display various styles of grooming behaviour
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August 08, 2012
New Kenyan fossils shed light on the evolution of the genus Homo
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June 27, 2012
For the first time, researchers have found plant remains in the two-million-year-old dental plaque of ancient hominins’ teeth
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June 13, 2012
Max Planck scientists have completed the genome of the bonobo - the final great ape to be sequenced
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May 10, 2012
Despite similar ecological conditions neighboring chimpanzee groups use different hammers to crack nuts
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April 12, 2012
In humans and chimpanzees knowledge is transmitted within a group by means of a majority principle
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February 07, 2012
The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, in Leipzig, Germany, has completed the genome sequence of a Denisovan, a representative of an Asian group of extinct humans related to Neandertals.
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January 23, 2012
Dominant males invest in friendly relationships with females
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January 03, 2012
Research suggests that great apes are capable of calculating the odds before taking risks
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Research publications 2011
December 29, 2011
Wild chimpanzees monitor the information available to other chimpanzees and inform their ignorant group members of danger
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December 14, 2011
Compared to Neanderthals, modern humans have a better sense of smell
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December 08, 2011
A recent study shows that, over the last two decades, areas with the greatest decrease in African great ape populations are those with no active protection from poaching by forest guards.
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December 02, 2011
An international consortium develops a computerized method for dating when prehistoric languages were spoken
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November 01, 2011
Does understanding emotions depend on the language we speak, or is our perception the same regardless of language and culture?
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October 25, 2011
Children as young as four years of age conform their public opinion to the majority
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October 13, 2011
Humans like to work together in solving tasks - chimps don't
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September 26, 2011
Contrary to what was previously assumed, modern humans may have populated Asia in more than one migration wave
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September 08, 2011
The versatile hand of Australopithecus sediba makes a better candidate for an early tool-making hominin than the hand of Homo habilis
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July 20, 2011
Children as young as three years of age share toy rewards equally with a peer, but only when both collaborated in order to gain them.
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June 01, 2011
Approx. 3 million years ago, females rather than males moved from the groups they were born in to new social groups.
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April 04, 2011
Two species of gorillas live in central equatorial Africa. Divergence between the Western gorillas (Gorilla gorilla) and Eastern gorillas (Gorilla beringei) began between 0.9 and 1.6 million years ago and now the two species live several hundred kilometres apart.
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Research publications 2010
December 23, 2010
Genome of extinct Siberian hominin sheds new light on modern human origins
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November 15, 2010
Synchrotron reveals human children outpaced Neanderthals by slowing down
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November 08, 2010
Theses differences are likely to contribute to cognitive differences between modern humans and Neanderthals
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October 18, 2010
Understanding what makes us different from other species might help us tackle human-specific diseases.
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October 15, 2010
Ten years after analyzing the human genome scientists have unravelled the DNA of the Neanderthals. The result: Homo sapiens and Neanderthals intermingled. Thus, there is a bit of Neanderthal in most of us.
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September 01, 2010
High social status and maternal support play an important role in the mating success of male bonobos
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August 12, 2010
New finds from Dikika, Ethiopia, push back the first stone tool use and meat-consumption by almost one million years
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May 06, 2010
Analysis of the Neandertal genome indicates that, contrary to previous beliefs, humans and Neandertals interbred
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March 24, 2010
Max Planck scientists decode the mitochondrial genome of a previously unknown hominin from the mountains of Central Asia
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March 01, 2010
Dogs recognize humans as individuals having their own perceptions and feelings
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Research publications 2009
December 14, 2009
Study on memory for dance moves discovers substantial cross-cultural diversity in human cognition
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July 07, 2009
Already 40,000 years ago people fed themselves to a large degree on fish
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April 21, 2009
The virtual reconstruction of a Neanderthal woman’s birth canal reveals insights into the evolution of human child birth
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April 08, 2009
Male chimpanzees that regularly share their food with females are able to mate more often than their stingy fellows
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February 12, 2009
Max Planck Scientists have completed a draft sequence of the Neanderthal genome
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Research publications 2008
February 15, 2008
40,000 year old tooth provides first evidence of Neanderthal movement
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January 25, 2008
The opening of gorillas and chimpanzees reserves for tourism is often portrayed as the key to conserving these endangered great apes. There are also however serious concerns that tourism may expose wild apes to infection by virulent human diseases
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Research publications 2007
December 04, 2007
Tooth growth suggests rapid maturation in a Neanderthal child
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October 26, 2007
Genetic studies show that some Neanderthals may have had red or fair hair and lighter coloured skin
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October 05, 2007
Unlike humans chimpanzees do not show a willingness to make fair offers and reject unfair ones.
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September 13, 2007
New study on role of climate in Neanderthal extinction
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September 12, 2007
Newly published IUNC list based in part on assessments by experts from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
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March 12, 2007
Research on a Homo sapiens juvenile fossil shows that modern human developmental patterns emerged more than 160,000 years ago
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February 13, 2007
West African chimpanzees have been cracking nuts with stone tools for thousands of years
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January 12, 2007
Dating of skull delivers the first fossil indicator that modern humans evolved in Africa
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Research publications 2006
December 06, 2006
Vaccination program urgently needed
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November 16, 2006
Max Planck researchers in Leipzig decode one million base pairs of the Neandertal genome
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September 21, 2006
Discovery of an Australopithecus afarensis child will help to answer important questions concerning human evolution
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September 05, 2006
Max Planck researchers have used psychological research techniques to successfully reconstruct primeval cognition
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July 20, 2006
The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and 454 Life Sciences Corporation unveil plan to sequence the Neandertal Genome
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March 02, 2006
Chimpanzees recognized when collaboration was necessary and chose the best collaborative partner
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March 02, 2006
First evidence for altruistic behaviours in human infants and chimpanzees
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January 18, 2006
Humans have a strong desire to help each other, but is spite also part of the human condition?
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Research publications 2005
October 25, 2005
Max Planck researchers in Leipzig, Germany, discover that Ebola Zaire is spreading like a wave across central Africa
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August 01, 2005
Max Planck scientists in Leipzig unveil one-of-a-kind documentation of world’s linguistic diversity / Surprising degree of grammatical borrowing between languages.
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March 08, 2005
Protein sequence from Neanderthal extracted and sequenced
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February 18, 2005
Shared properties of human languages are not the result of universal grammar but reflect self-organizing properties of language as an evolving system
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January 11, 2005
Prize winners are Prof. Alan Hall, Medical Research Council, London, and Prof. Svante Pääbo, Max Planck Institute for evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
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Research publications 2004
February 03, 2004
Paleoanthropology and -archaeology becomes another main focus at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig
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