Science news articles about 'evolutionary anthropology'

  • How female chimps call off the competition

    ... , Uganda, in collaboration with Tobias Deschner of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. They found that chimpanzee females use copulation calls strategically to enlist ...
  • Infant play drives chimpanzee respiratory disease cycles

    ... Park, Côte d'Ivoire. Previous work by the authors, from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig Germany, had shown that chimpanzees at the site were killed by respiratory ...
  • Little teeth suggest big jump in primate timeline

    ... the oldest anthropoid from Asia and India," said Richard Kay, a Duke professor of evolutionary anthropology who is corresponding author of a report to be published online during the week of Aug. 4-8 ...
  • Human brains pay a price for being big

    ... by-product of human brain evolution. Philipp Khaitovich, from the Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and the Shanghai branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, led a collaboration of ...
  • Complete Neandertal mitochondrial genome sequenced from 38,000-year-old bone

    ... is essentially without error," said Richard Green of Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany. The key is that they sequenced the Neandertal mitochondria—powerhouses of the cell ...
  • I Want Your Antibodies

    ... of new research and ideas in the sexiest of the hard sciences: reproductive biology, evolutionary anthropology, and genetics. This is sex from the inside out. Keep track of the column at popsci.com/ ...
  • Despite 'peacenik' reputation, bonobos hunt and eat other primates too

    ... separate chimpanzees and bonobos," said Gottfried Hohmann of the Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. "In chimpanzees, male-dominance is associated with physical violence, hunting, and ...
  • In a last 'stronghold' for endangered chimpanzees, survey finds drastic decline

    ... over the last 18 years," said Christophe Boesch, also of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. "Since most threats to chimpanzee populations are derived from human activities such ...
  • Primate disease field guide covers critical gap in global health

    ... Fabian Leendertz a virologist at the Robert Koch Institute and Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany. Risk of Primate, Human Pathogen Exchanges Up The specialized field of ...
  • Scientists reconstruct woolly mammoth genome

    ... animal, that's really a milestone," said Michael Hofreiter at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.The first draft of the genetic code reveals that mammoths split ...
  • Dogs chase efficiently, but cats skulk counterintuitively

    ... efficiency is what matters in evolution," said Daniel Schmitt, a Duke associate professor of evolutionary anthropology. "We've found that's too simple a way of looking at evolution, because there are ...
  • A good night's sleep protects against parasites

    ... why we sleep has long puzzled scientists. Brian Preston from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, led an international team of researchers who tested the theory ...
  • Draft version of the Neanderthal genome completed

    The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, in Leipzig, Germany, and the 454 Life Sciences Corporation, in Branford, Connecticut, will announce on 12 February during the 2009 Annual ...
  • Neandertals 2.0

    ... find out if that is true. Recently, scientists at the Max Plank Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig Germany announced that they had completed the sequencing of the Neandertal genome. ...
  • A little bit of spit reveals a lot about what lives in your mouth

    ... . The researchers, led by Dr. Mark Stoneking of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, have sequenced and analyzed variation in the bacterial gene encoding 16S ...

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