Press releases (archive)

Wild chimpanzees monitor the information available to other chimpanzees and inform their ignorant group members of danger

Many animals produce alarm...

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...

The evolution of the brain in fossil hominins reveals improved olfactory functions in Homo sapiens

Differences in the temporal lobes and olfactory...

An international consortium develops a computerized method for dating when prehistoric languages were spoken

A computerized method for determining when...

Children as young as four years of age conform their public opinion to the majority

Adults and adolescents often adjust their behaviour and opinions to...

Humans like to work together in solving tasks - chimps don't

Recent studies have shown that chimpanzees possess many of the cognitive prerequisites...

An international team of researchers studying DNA patterns from modern and archaic humans has uncovered new clues about the movement and intermixing...

The versatile hand of Australopithecus sediba makes a better candidate for an early tool-making hominin than the hand of Homo habilis

Hand bones from...

American developmental psychologist, Dr. Michael Tomasello, has been named as this year’s recipient of the Wiley Prize in Psychology, awarded by the...

Ugandan forest monkeys use fruiting synchrony to find food

An international team of researchers including Karline Janmaat of the Max Planck Institute...

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. Katharina...

Approx. 3 million years ago, females rather than males moved from the groups they were born in to new social groups.

So far ranging and residence...

Two species of gorillas live in central equatorial Africa. Divergence between the Western gorillas (Gorilla gorilla) and Eastern Gorillas (Gorilla...

The above publication by researchers led by Svante Pääbo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig...