How food availability could catalyze cultural transmission in wild orangutans
The proverb “necessity is the mother of invention” has been used to describe the source from which our cultural evolution springs. After all, need in times of scarcity has forced humans to continually invent new technologies that have driven the remarkable cumulative culture of our species. But an…
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First plenary meeting of interdisciplinary research on floodplain history and fluvial societies
At the first international plenary meeting of the DFG Priority Programme „On the Way to the Fluvial Anthroposphere“, which took place from 17th to 19th January at Leipzig University, 70 researchers from Great Britain, Slovakia, Croatia, Austria, Switzerland and Germany came together to get an idea…
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Leipzig University clears first hurdle in excellence competition: Invitation to submit two full proposals
Leipzig University has successfully passed the first stage of the Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments and has been invited to submit two full proposals. The research projects described in its “Breathing Nature” and “Leipzig Center of Metabolism” draft proposals are the…
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Dr Leon Li joins Leipzig University to research unethical behaviour
Developmental psychologist Dr Leon Li will spend the next two years at Leipzig University researching how unethical behaviour arises in groups. The Humboldt Fellow recently joined the Faculty of Education.
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Utilising active microparticles for artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence using neural networks performs calculations digitally with the help of microelectronic chips. Physicists at Leipzig University have now created a type of neural network that works not with electricity but with so-called active colloidal particles. In their publication in the…
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Interview with the newly elected anti-Semitism commissioner Professor Gert Pickel
International Holocaust Remembrance Day is observed on 27 January. Anti-Semitic resentment has never really disappeared in Germany, it just often appears in a hidden form, explains Professor Gert Pickel of Leipzig University. He is the deputy spokesperson of the Competence Centre for Right-Wing…