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Bonobos innovate, plan, and transmit tool use to solve an extractive foraging task

The study investigates the individual, social, and environmental factors shaping tool use in sanctuary-living bonobos, finding that tool use is influenced by developmental factors, exposure to others using tools, and tool availability. The findings highlight the importance of social-learning opportunities and developmental biases in ape tool use, offering insight into conditions that may also have supported the emergence of tool use during hominin evolution.

Whole-Genome-Sequencing Reveals Demographic History and Patterns of Parallel Adaptive Evolution in Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) Across Coastal Australian Seascapes

How do dolphins adapt to vastly different environments? A genomic study of bottlenose dolphins around Australia reveals parallel adaptation to tropical waters and uncovers how evolution, environment, and demographic history shape marine populations.

Identifying social learning through peering: predictions and recommendations

A new perspective article explores how “peering”, the sustained observation of conspecifics, can reveal social learning in animals. The proposed framework aims to strengthen research on culture, knowledge transmission, and cognitive evolution.

"Learning to be an Orangutan” – How Science Can Inform Conservation Practice

Evolutionary Genomics of Killer Whales and Threespine Sticklebacks

Evolutionary and Cultural Origins of Human Communication: Seenthrough the Eye of Development

Beyond the Forest: Chimpanzee Locomotion in Open Habitats and Implications for Human

A Multiproxy Approach to Investigating the Last Neanderthals

The evolution of music

Evolution of Inter-Group Social Dynamics and Multilevel Organization in Primates

Reconstructing Locomotor Diversity in Plio-Pleistocene Hominins