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| Brian HareSummaryAffiliation: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Country: Germany Publications
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A fruit in the hand or two in the bush? Divergent risk preferences in chimpanzees and bonobosSarah R Heilbronner
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Biol Lett 4:246-9. 2008..These results provide a relatively rare example of risk-prone behaviour in the context of gains and show how ecological pressures can sculpt economic decision making...
Social cognitive evolution in captive foxes is a correlated by-product of experimental domesticationBrian Hare
Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Curr Biol 15:226-30. 2005....- Human-like social skills in dogs?Brian Hare
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, Leipzig, Germany
Trends Cogn Sci 9:439-44. 2005..The study of convergent evolution provides an exciting opportunity to gain further insights into the evolutionary processes leading to human-like forms of cooperation and communication... - Chimpanzees deceive a human competitor by hidingBrian Hare
Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Cognition 101:495-514. 2006.... - Tolerance allows bonobos to outperform chimpanzees on a cooperative taskBrian Hare
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, D 04103 Leipzig, Germany
Curr Biol 17:619-23. 2007..These results support the emotional-reactivity hypothesis. Selection on temperament may in part explain the variance in cooperative ability across species, including hominoids... 
The structure of individual differences in the cognitive abilities of children and chimpanzeesEsther Herrmann
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
Psychol Sci 21:102-10. 2010....- Bonobos exhibit delayed development of social behavior and cognition relative to chimpanzeesVictoria Wobber
Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Curr Biol 20:226-30. 2010..The results suggest that these social and cognitive differences between two closely related species result from evolutionary changes in brain development... 
Spontaneous altruism by chimpanzees and young childrenFelix Warneken
Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
PLoS Biol 5:e184. 2007..These results indicate that chimpanzees share crucial aspects of altruism with humans, suggesting that the roots of human altruism may go deeper than previous experimental evidence suggested...- Reliance on head versus eyes in the gaze following of great apes and human infants: the cooperative eye hypothesisMichael Tomasello
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, D 04103 Leipzig, Germany
J Hum Evol 52:314-20. 2007.... - The domestication of social cognition in dogsBrian Hare
Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Science 298:1634-6. 2002..These findings suggest that during the process of domestication, dogs have been selected for a set of social-cognitive abilities that enable them to communicate with humans in unique ways... - Differences in the cognitive skills of bonobos and chimpanzeesEsther Herrmann
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
PLoS ONE 5:e12438. 2010..These species differences support the role of ecological and socio-ecological pressures in shaping cognitive skills over relatively short periods of evolutionary time... - Differential changes in steroid hormones before competition in bonobos and chimpanzeesVictoria Wobber
Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Peabody Museum, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:12457-62. 2010..In turn, common selection pressures in human evolution may have acted on the psychology and the endocrinology of our competitive behavior... - Reaching around barriers: the performance of the great apes and 3-5-year-old childrenPetra H J M Vlamings
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, Leipzig, Germany
Anim Cogn 13:273-85. 2010..In general, the performance of the older children was far from perfect and comparable to some of the nonhuman apes tested... - A comparison of temperament in nonhuman apes and human infantsEsther Herrmann
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
Dev Sci 14:1393-405. 2011..These findings also provide new insights into how species differences in ecology may shape differences in temperament... - Chimpanzees recruit the best collaboratorsAlicia P Melis
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, D 04103, Germany
Science 311:1297-300. 2006.... - What's in it for me? Self-regard precludes altruism and spite in chimpanzeesKeith Jensen
The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Deutscher Platz 6, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
Proc Biol Sci 273:1013-21. 2006..The main result across all studies was that chimpanzees made their choices based solely on personal gain, with no regard for the outcomes of a conspecific. These results raise questions about the origins of human cooperative behaviour... - Humans have evolved specialized skills of social cognition: the cultural intelligence hypothesisEsther Herrmann
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, D 04103, Germany
Science 317:1360-6. 2007.... - Testing the social dog hypothesis: are dogs also more skilled than chimpanzees in non-communicative social tasks?Victoria Wobber
Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Behav Processes 81:423-8. 2009..These results suggest that the dogs' sophisticated social skills in using human social cues may be relatively specialized as a result of domestication... - 'Unwilling' versus 'unable': chimpanzees' understanding of human intentional actionJosep Call
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
Dev Sci 7:488-98. 2004..experimenter These data together with other recent studies on chimpanzees' knowledge about others' visual perception show that chimpanzees know more about the intentional actions and perceptions of others than previously demonstrated.. - Bonobos have a more human-like second-to-fourth finger length ratio (2D:4D) than chimpanzees: a hypothesized indication of lower prenatal androgensMatthew H McIntyre
Department of Anthropology, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816, USA
J Hum Evol 56:361-5. 2009..We hypothesize that the species difference in 2D:4D between bonobos and chimpanzees suggests a possible role for early exposure to sex hormones in the development of behavioral differences between the two species... - Psychological health of orphan bonobos and chimpanzees in African sanctuariesVictoria Wobber
Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
PLoS ONE 6:e17147. 2011.... - The evolutionary origins of human patience: temporal preferences in chimpanzees, bonobos, and human adultsAlexandra G Rosati
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, Leipzig D 04103, Germany
Curr Biol 17:1663-8. 2007..Moreover, the different levels of patience that humans exhibit might be driven by fundamental differences in the mechanisms representing biological versus abstract rewards... - Great apes prefer cooked foodVictoria Wobber
Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Peabody Museum, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
J Hum Evol 55:340-8. 2008..The results, therefore, challenge the hypothesis that the control of fire preceded cooking by a significant period...