title: Planet of the apes.
abstract: What makes us humans so special? Our language, our genes, our culture, our cognitive skills? At the Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, psychologists, linguists and biologists tackle this old question in a truly multidisciplinary way. Their results have implications not just for our understanding of human evolution--they also touch directly on many social and environmental issues. Florian Maderspacher reports.
authors.forename: Florian
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Maderspacher
mesh_terms: D000047:Academies and Institutes / Q000639:trends*; D000818:Animals; D000883:Anthropology / Q000639:trends*; D005075:Biological Evolution; D003468:Cultural Evolution; D005823:Genetics / Q000639:trends; D005858:Germany; D015186:Hominidae / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D007802:Language; D012919:Social Behavior