What a lovely post PhD defense present: Our new paper out in Nature Human Behaviour 😍🥳We combine linguistic, cultural and genetic data from Central African hunter-gatherer populations to explore the coevolution of genetic + cultural/linguistic diversity ... nature.com/articles/s4156…

Sick chimpanzees seek out range of plants with medicinal properties newscientist.com/article/243564…

🚨 We’re now on X! 🚨 The Human Evolutionary Ecology Group led by Andrea Migliano at University of Zurich studies cultural evolution, social networks and past dispersions in humans and other great apes and works closely with hunter-gatherer societies worldwide! Follow us for updates 🤗🌍🦍🧬

Check out this exciting online talk by Prof. Andrea Migliano Andrea Migliano at The Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology MPI-GEA Jena on "Evolutionary consequences of human multilevel social structure" today at 2pm CET gea.mpg.de/events/39569/2…

So proud 🥳🫶

🎉 Celebrating 125 years of Department of Evolutionary Anthropology🎉 Check out our table at Irchel Lichthof and dive into our beautifully curated Agta storybook📚✨ All proceeds go towards for Agta plantations and ensure a sustainable future for them🌱🌳

Had a great time hosting our visiting guest researcher Onkar Sadekar ! Exciting discussions and collaboration—looking forward to seeing the results of our work together ✨

We are very happy to share the paper by our PhD ⁦Inez Derkx⁩ on Alcohol consumption, life history and extinction risk among Raute hunter–gatherers from Nepal | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core. congratulations 🥂✨ cambridge.org/core/journals/…

PNAS special feature: Half a century of cultural evolution pnas.org/topic/565

Could we be MORE excited??? Huge congratulations to our lab member Cassandra Gunasekaram for her first PhD publication in Science. SO proud of her! Check it out 👇 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… #culturalevolution #primateculture #cumulativeculture #socialnetworks #chimps

A new, multidisciplinary study led by the University of Zurich suggests that some of chimpanzees' most advanced behaviors may have been passed down and refined through generations: news.uzh.ch/en/articles/me… UZH Science

On cumulative culture in humans and chimps :) tomorrow at FRESH

Do #chimpanzees have culture? Yes, and what's more it appears to be cumulative and can spread across generations. Fascinating work from Cassandra Gunasekaram et al that could reveal how far back the evolutionary history of cumulative culture goes IFLScience iflscience.com/groundbreaking…

Proud of our brilliant lab members for their fantastic talks at the FRESH 2024 conference ! 👏🥂 Vic Martignac Chirag Chittar Deepshika_arun ✨

So proud 👏

Our new paper is out! 🚀 BaYaka hunter-gatherer children are 3x more active than WHO recommendations & stay active as they age—unlike US/UK kids, whose activity declines with the start of formal schooling 📉. Read more in Scientific Reports: rdcu.be/d72T1