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.

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

27.07.2023

Behavioural Flexibility in Chimpanzee Tool use

Colloquium by Prof. Dr. Ammie Kalan

14.07.2023

New Paper published in PNAS Nexus by our former fellow Dr. Hannes Rathmann, our former Scientific Coordinator Prof. Dr. Hugo Reyes-Centeno and our PI Prof. Dr. Katerina Harvati and colleagues

Inferring human neutral genetic variation from craniodental phenotypes

13.07.2023

Aerosols, airflow, and more: Examining the interaction of speech and the physical environment

Colloquium by Prof. Dr. Caleb Everett

13.07.2023

Comparative phonetics: towards insights into the evolution of speech

Colloquium by Prof. Dr. Steven Moran and Axel Erkström