News and Colloquia

All news concerning the Center "Words, Bones, Genes, Tools" are announced on this site in chronological order. This includes the bi-weekly colloquia, additional invited talks, published articles related to the center, and all the information on the yearly symposia.

17.11.2024

New Open-Access Publication in Scientific Reports by Dr. Judith Beier and Colleagues

Published article in Scientific Reports

11.11.2024

New Study Published in Journal of Human Evolution Uncovers Human-like Grasping Patterns in Early Hominin Fossils

11.11.2024

Junior Research Group Publishes Open-Access Study on Early Stone Tool Efficiency in AJBA

21.08.2024

New Science Advances Study Reveals Human Population Dynamics in Upper Paleolithic Europe

06.07.2024

Prof. Dr. Gustavo Politis Awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Prize 2024

06.07.2024

New paper published in PNAS by our former fellow Dr. Chundra Cathcart

Multiple evolutionary pressures shape identical consonant avoidance in the world’s languages

13.12.2023

New Paper by our former Scientific Coordinator Dr. Marisa Köllner and former research fellow Dr. Christin Beck - published in the International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change (LChange’23) co-located with EMNLP 2023

GHisBERT – Training BERT from scratch for lexical semantic investigations across historical German…

19.10.2023

Bringing cumulative technological culture beyond copying versus reasoning

Colloquium by Prof. Dr. François Osiurak