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Not All Stress Is the Same: Variable Associations Between Psychosocial Stressors and Urinary Cortisol Rhythms in a Small-Scale Subsistence Society

Among Tsimane adults in Bolivia, different stressors—food insecurity, social conflict and economic problems—were linked to distinct daily cortisol patterns. Results reveal complex associations between stress, health and HPA-axis function in a subsistence society.

Responses of mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) to deceased infants

Drawing on 21 years of data from 141 infant deaths, this study shows that mountain gorilla mothers frequently carry deceased infants, with patterns shaped by infant age and cause of death. Findings highlight attachment bonds, caregiving roles and primate responses to death.

PhD Defence Svenja Marfurt

From Shallow Markers to Deep Genomes: Seascape Genomics of Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) across Past, Present, and Future Oceans

"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