We estimated the additive genetic variance (VA) and heritability of lifetime and time-limited fitness in a wild female baboon population in Kenya. We found

Percussive technology in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) shows significant behavioral variation across Africa. An example is baobab (Adansonia digitata) fruit pounding, which is only known to occur...

Variation in army ant consumption strategies highlights cultural differences between chimpanzee communities in forest habitats. Since these strategies have not been studied in detail in savannas, vari...

How the ARTEMIS mentoring programme connects African students and doctoral researchers with scientists of the Max Planck Society — and why mentoring means more than just offering professional advice

Background Animals coexist with complex microbiota, including bacteria, viruses, and eukaryotes (e.g., fungi, protists, and helminths). While high-throughput sequencing is commonly used to characteriz...

Immune genes show remarkably consistent evidence of selection, modification, and diversification across the tree of life. Parasites are a key force in…

Scientific Data - A curated dataset of great ape genome diversity

Understanding how life is adapting to urban environments represents an important challenge in evolutionary biology. In this work, we investigate a widely cited example of urban adaptation, Culex pipie...

Parent–offspring relationships can have profound effects on offspring behaviour, health and fitness in adulthood. These effects are strong when parents make heavy investments in offspring care. Howeve...

Immune genetic and disease surveillance of a wild meerkat population over 20 years shows that tuberculosis imposes strong pathogen-mediated balancing selection on the meerkats’ major histocompatibilit...

Ancient DNA from the Southern Caucasus reveals remarkable genetic continuity, with some mixing from Anatolia/Iran and the Eurasian Steppe, and shows that even periods of urbanization and increased mob...

Female gorillas challenge the male power narrative

A study of the cooperative breeding behaviour of superb starlings during 40 consecutive breeding seasons over 20 years reveals long-term reciprocal helping between both related and unrelated individua...

Biodiversity loss can occur when disturbance compromises the reproductive barriers between species, causing them to collapse into a single population through hybridization. Recent research has documen...

An experimental study shows that interspecific hybridization transferred components of genetic incompatibility across species, which facilitated the evolution of reproductive isolation between two swo...

By simulating disease spread in free-living rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) before and after a hurricane, we demonstrate doubled pathogen transmission rates up to 5 years following the disaster, equ...

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We present MacaqueNet, a global community of macaque researchers who developed the first publicly searchable, standardised database on affiliative and agonistic behaviour. This cross-species database...

White-faced capuchins with a stronger stress response to previous droughts were more likely to survive a severe El Niño drought.