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Congratulations Dr Luková! Can't wait to have you in the team at Leipzig 🥳

What about #bipedalism in #Sahelanthropus? An intl. team led by Cazenave Marine MPI-EVA Leipzig's Dept. of Human Origins & Bernard Wood GW University find no evidence for habitual bipedalism in this species' postcranial remains. tinyurl.com/33bm69xb & sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

This is a big deal--a second high quality Denisovan genome has been sequenced, and it's old! The most ancient human genome yet has been sequenced—and it’s a Denisovan’s | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…

🥁 Happy #WorldChimpanzeeDay from the Nimba chimps!!! Let’s celebrate and protect these magnificent beings ❤️ #NimbaMountains Ape Behaviour & Ecology Group UZH Science Jane Goodall Institut Schweiz

The call for our (me & V. Abdala) Journal of Anatomy special issue on the evolution of joints in vertebrates is now posted. We already have a great lineup of invited contributions, but would love for add'l folks working on related topics to submit, too! Email me with questions 🦴

Field Assistant Wanted! Do you want to study wild orangutans?🦧🌿 Come join us!

New Paper in Current Biology! Chimpanzees across FIVE communities take rapid turns in gesture-to-gesture exchanges resembling human conversational patterns. Language may not be a pre-requisite for fast-paced, coordinated communication in social species sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

📢📢 The Dept. of Comparative Cultural #Psychology MPI-EVA Leipzig is looking for a #PhD candidate for a project on the cognitive foundations of cumulative cultural #evolution in #chimpanzees. Interested? ⏰✍️ Apply by August 15th! eva.mpg.de/career/positio…

In our latest publication comparing wild chimpanzee female and male positional behaviour at Issa Valley, Tanzania, we also found that males spent more time lying around than females... I'll say no more 😅 doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.2…

Read a feature on our latest research on Issa chimpanzee positional behaviour, published in American Journal of Biological Anthropology, by MPI-EVA Leipzig: "How chimpanzees adapt to open habitats" eva.mpg.de/press/news/art… GMERC @TracyKivell

New research by Rhianna Drummond-Clarke, @TracyKivell & colleagues, published in American Journal of Biological Anthropology, reveals surprising aspects of arboreal & positional #behaviour in Issa Valley #chimpanzees showing how they adapt to an open habitat. GMERC tinyurl.com/4st7cte2 & onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aj…

🚨 New paper alert African Primates 🐒🌳 1/8 A decade after the last chimpanzee nut-cracking studies in the Diécké Forest, we returned to the 2nd largest forest of Guinea to review chimpanzee presence, cultural activities & emerging conservation threats static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/12003…

📢Funded PhD position: We are looking for a PhD candidate documenting cultural behaviour in 4 neighbouring communities of Taï chimpanzees and investigating the effects of illegal human activity on their cultures. Start between Oct 1 and Feb 1. Apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Doctora…