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Age Patterning in Wild Chimpanzee Gut Microbiota Diversity Reveals Differences from Humans in Early Life

scientific article published on 16 November 2020

Age-related change in adult chimpanzee social network integration

Age-related reproductive effort in male chimpanzees: terminal investment or alternative tactics?

scientific article published in July 2024

Aging and fertility patterns in wild chimpanzees provide insights into the evolution of menopause

scientific article (publication date: 18 December 2007)

Alpha male status and availability of conceptive females are associated with high glucocorticoid concentrations in high-ranking male rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) during the mating season.

scientific article published on 24 September 2017

Associations between male testosterone and immune function in a pathogenically stressed forager-horticultural population

scientific article published on 28 July 2016

Breaking the succession rule: the costs and benefits of an alpha-status take-over by an immigrant rhesus macaque on Cayo Santiago

Comparative Reproductive Energetics of Human and Nonhuman Primates

Demographic and hormonal evidence for menopause in wild chimpanzees

scientific article published on 26 October 2023

Demography, life-history trade-offs, and the gastrointestinal virome of wild chimpanzees

scientific article published on 21 September 2020

Depression as sickness behavior? A test of the host defense hypothesis in a high pathogen population

scientific article

Diet and reproductive function in wild female chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) at Kibale National Park, Uganda

scientific article published on February 2008

Dynamics of social and energetic stress in wild female chimpanzees

scientific article published on 28 May 2010

Energetics of feeding, social behavior, and life history in non-human primates

scientific article

Energy expenditure and activity among Hadza hunter-gatherers.

scientific article published on 30 March 2015

Evaluating the impact of physical frailty during ageing in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii)

scientific article published on 21 September 2020

Faecal parasites increase with age but not reproductive effort in wild female chimpanzees

scientific article published on 21 September 2020

Faster reproductive rates trade off against offspring growth in wild chimpanzees

scientific article

Female reproduction and viral infection in a long‐lived mammal

scientific article published on 21 August 2022

Female reproductive strategies in orangutans, evidence for female choice and counterstrategies to infanticide in a species with frequent sexual coercion.

scientific article published on 7 October 2009

Female-led infanticide in wild chimpanzees.

scientific article published in May 2007

Fertility and mortality patterns of captive Bornean and Sumatran orangutans: is there a species difference in life history?

scientific article

Helminth infection is associated with dampened cytokine responses to viral and bacterial stimulations in Tsimane hunter-horticulturalists

Hormonal predictors of women's extra-pair vs. in-pair sexual attraction in natural cycles: Implications for extended sexuality

scientific article published on 21 November 2015

How can non-human primates inform evolutionary perspectives on female-biased kinship in humans?

scientific article published on 15 July 2019

Human males appear more prepared than females to resolve conflicts with same-sex peers

scientific article

Human-like adrenal development in wild chimpanzees: A longitudinal study of urinary dehydroepiandrosterone-sulfate and cortisol

scientific article published on 10 November 2019

Hyperprogesteronemia in response to Vitex fischeri consumption in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii).

scientific article

Insights from evolutionarily relevant models for human ageing

scientific article published on 21 September 2020

Lethal Respiratory Disease Associated with Human Rhinovirus C in Wild Chimpanzees, Uganda, 2013.

scientific article published in February 2018

Low testosterone correlates with delayed development in male orangutans.

scientific article

Male chimpanzees prefer mating with old females

scientific article published on November 2006

Male coercion and the costs of promiscuous mating for female chimpanzees.

scientific article published in April 2007

Male quality, dominance rank, and mating success in free-ranging rhesus macaques

scientific article published in 2015

Males with a mother living in their group have higher paternity success in bonobos but not chimpanzees

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

Matriliny reverses gender disparities in inflammation and hypertension among the Mosuo of China

scientific article published on 16 November 2020

Men’s oxidative stress, fluctuating asymmetry and physical attractiveness

article published in 2010

Metabolic acceleration and the evolution of human brain size and life history

scientific article published on 4 May 2016

No evidence of short-term exchange of meat for sex among chimpanzees.

scientific article published on 21 May 2010

Non-invasive estimation of the costs of feeding competition in a neotropical primate

scientific article published on 13 December 2019

Oxidative stress as an indicator of the costs of reproduction among free-ranging rhesus macaques

scientific article published on 23 April 2015

Oxytocin and vulnerable romantic relationships.

scientific article published on 27 February 2017

Paternity and social rank in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) from the Budongo Forest, Uganda

scientific article published on July 2010

Political influence associates with cortisol and health among egalitarian forager-farmers

scientific article

Predation by female chimpanzees: Toward an understanding of sex differences in meat acquisition in the last common ancestor of Pan and Homo

scientific article published on 20 July 2017

Probable Community Transfer of Parous Adult Female Chimpanzees in the Budongo Forest, Uganda

scholarly article by Melissa Emery Thompson et al published 5 December 2006 in International Journal of Primatology

Reproductive ecology of female chimpanzees

scientific article published on 26 September 2012

Reproductive endocrinology of wild female chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii): methodological considerations and the role of hormones in sex and conception

scientific article published on September 2005

Risk factors for respiratory illness in a community of wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii)

scientific article published on 19 September 2018

Screening wild and semi-free ranging great apes for putative sexually transmitted diseases: Evidence of Trichomonadidae infections

scientific article published on 26 June 2015

Screening wild and semi-free ranging great apes for putative sexually transmitted diseases: Evidence of Trichomonadidae infections

scientific article published on 15 February 2017

Seed predation by bonobos (Pan paniscus) at Kokolopori, Democratic Republic of the Congo

scientific article

Sexual conflict: nice guys finish last

scientific article published in December 2014

Sexual dimorphism in chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) and human age-specific fertility

scientific article published on 23 May 2020

Simultaneous outbreaks of respiratory disease in wild chimpanzees caused by distinct viruses of human origin

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Social selectivity in aging wild chimpanzees

scientific article

Steroid Hormone Reactivity in Fathers Watching Their Children Compete

scientific article published on 01 September 2018

Strength determines coalitional strategies in humans.

scientific article published on 8 April 2009

Technical note: variation in muscle mass in wild chimpanzees: application of a modified urinary creatinine method

scientific article published on 17 October 2012

Testosterone and male cognitive performance in Tsimane forager-horticulturalists

scientific article

Testosterone and romance: the association of testosterone with relationship commitment and satisfaction in heterosexual men and women

scientific article published on 31 May 2011

Testosterone, cortisol, and status-striving personality features: A review and empirical evaluation of the Dual Hormone hypothesis

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

The Foraging Costs of Mating Effort in Male Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii)

The High Price of Success: Costs of Mating Effort in Male Primates

The Kibale Chimpanzee Project: Over thirty years of research, conservation, and change

scientific article published on 12 November 2020

The Paternal Provisioning Hypothesis: effects of workload and testosterone production on men's musculature.

scientific article

The development of feeding behavior in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii).

scientific article

The ecology of female reproduction in wild orangutans

The evolution of female-biased kinship in humans and other mammals

scientific article published on 15 July 2019

The relationship between testosterone and long-distance calling in wild male chimpanzees

scientific article

URINARY MARKERS OF OXIDATIVE STRESS CORRESPOND TO INFECTION AND AGING IN WILD CHIMPANZEES

scholarly article in Innovation in Aging, vol. 3, Suppl 1, November 2019

Under threat of social exclusion, females exclude more than males

scientific article published on 14 March 2011

Urinary C-peptide of insulin as a non-invasive marker of energy balance in wild orangutans

scientific article

Urinary C-peptide tracks seasonal and individual variation in energy balance in wild chimpanzees

scientific article published on 25 November 2008

Urinary markers of oxidative stress respond to infection and late-life in wild chimpanzees

scientific article published on 11 September 2020

Using urinary parameters to estimate seasonal variation in the physical condition of female white-faced capuchin monkeys (Cebus capucinus imitator).

scientific article published on 27 May 2017

Viruses in sanctuary chimpanzees across Africa

scientific article published on 3 November 2022

Vocal signals facilitate cooperative hunting in wild chimpanzees

scientific article published in 2022

When the economy falters, do people spend or save? Responses to resource scarcity depend on childhood environments.

scientific article

Wild chimpanzees exhibit humanlike aging of glucocorticoid regulation

scientific article published on 30 March 2020

Wins and losses in intergroup conflicts reflect energy balance in red-tailed monkeys

scientific article published on 4 April 2022

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