The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology investigates the #history and #evolution of #humans and other #primates.
Leipzig, Germany
https://www.eva.mpg.de/index.html
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Schalter in einem #Enzym: Eine molekulare Veränderung könnte dem Menschen dabei geholfen haben, #Ernährung und #Entgiftung im Gleichgewicht zu halten. Neue Studie im Journal Science Advances von einem Team um Luise Fast und Hugo Zeberg vom @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social. www.mpg.de/26554369/mol...
Control switch in an #enzyme: A molecular change may have helped humans balance #nutrition and #detoxification. New study in the journal Science Advances by Luise Fast, Hugo Zeberg & colleagues @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social. More: tinyurl.com/yeyevare & www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
25 Jahre Pongoland! 🎉🤩 Seit 2001 verbindet Pongoland im
@zooleipzig.bsky.social Menschenaffenhaltung, Forschung und Wissensvermittlung. Gemeinsam erforschen wir die kognitiven Fähigkeiten unserer nächsten Verwandten – mit Relevanz für Tierwohl und Artenschutz. 🐵🌍 www.eva.mpg.de/de/presse/ak...
🎓 Fully Funded PhD in Human Ecology & Behaviour – Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany
🌿 Field-based research in Nicaragua | Longitudinal behavioural analysis + ecology
🎓 Eligibility: Master’s
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#PhD @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social
We are delighted to welcome a new Max Planck Research Group to @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social! 🥳 Led by @lirsamuni.bsky.social, this group will study wild #apes to address fundamental questions about the ecological & social bases of #cooperation & #culture. @maxplanck.de www.eva.mpg.de/press/news/a...
April 22nd 2026 is our 11 year Chimp&See anniversary!
Check out our anniversary post here: www.zooniverse.org/projects/sas...
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Easter EP
As AI agents get smarter, are we entering a golden age of hypercreativity? Or are we entering an age of homogenised culture where we all just recycle the same AI-generated ideas?
@adigitaltanay.bsky.social & Jay explore this and much more with @babeheim.bsky.social
youtu.be/coQnyaEw50s
Learn from my friend Corina Logan @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social about what a bird that drinks tequila and eats chips and salsa can teach us about conservation.
youtu.be/imZNHhjGOeY?...
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Liran Samuni has started a new research group at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig
New 🦍 💭 paper in @psychscience.bsky.social
We continue to ask simple questions that are hard to answer
"Individual Differences in Great Ape Cognition Across Time and Domains: Stability, Structure, and Predictability"
Bonus: Rasch models in the supplement 🤓
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Not a secret anymore! I am extremely proud and happy to present you the EVApeCognition Dataset, out now in Scientific Data.
Over the last 5 years we have assembled and standardized data from 150 studies on great ape cognition from the WKPRC in the Leipzig Zoo!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Chimp&See
HigherJobz
The Cognitations podcast
Scientific Data - EVApeCognition: An 18-Year Dataset of Great Ape Cognition
How to quantify the impact of AI on long-run cultural evolution? Published today, I give it a go!
400+ years of strategic dynamics in the game of Go (Baduk/Weiqi), from feudalism to AlphaGo!
