Pan paniscus

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A competitive nonverbal false belief task for children and apes. 
  • A fruit in the hand or two in the bush? Divergent risk preferences in chimpanzees and bonobos. 
  • Abundant gene conversion between arms of palindromes in human and ape Y chromosomes. 
  • All great ape species (Gorilla gorilla, Pan paniscus, Pan troglodytes, Pongo abelii) and two-and-a-half-year-old children (Homo sapiens) discriminate appearance from reality. 
  • All great ape species follow gaze to distant locations and around barriers. 
  • Apes reciprocate food positively and negatively. 
  • Apes' and children's understanding of cooperative and competitive motives in a communicative situation. 
  • Apes' use of iconic cues in the object-choice task. 
  • Assessing conservation attitudes and behaviors of Congolese children neighboring the world's first bonobo (Pan paniscus) release site. 
  • Body language: The interplay between positional behavior and gestural signaling in the genus Pan and its implications for language evolution. 
  • Body orientation and face orientation: two factors controlling apes' behavior from humans. 
  • Bonobo but not chimpanzee infants use socio-sexual contact with peers. 
  • Bonobos Prefer Individuals that Hinder Others over Those that Help. 
  • Bonobos and chimpanzees exhibit human-like framing effects. 
  • Bonobos exhibit delayed development of social behavior and cognition relative to chimpanzees. 
  • Bonobos have a more human-like second-to-fourth finger length ratio (2D:4D) than chimpanzees: a hypothesized indication of lower prenatal androgens. 
  • Bonobos respond prosocially toward members of other groups. 
  • Bonobos share with strangers. 
  • Bonobos voluntarily share their own food with others. 
  • Children, chimpanzees, and bonobos adjust the visibility of their actions for cooperators and competitors. 
  • Chimpanzees and bonobos distinguish between risk and ambiguity. 
  • Chimpanzees and bonobos exhibit divergent spatial memory development. 
  • Chimpanzees and bonobos exhibit emotional responses to decision outcomes. 
  • Chimpanzees, bonobos, and children successfully coordinate in conflict situations. 
  • Communication about absent entities in great apes and human infants. 
  • Differences in the cognitive skills of bonobos and chimpanzees. 
  • Differences in the early cognitive development of children and great apes. 
  • Differences in the nonverbal requests of great apes and human infants. 
  • Different ontogenetic patterns of testosterone production reflect divergent male reproductive strategies in chimpanzees and bonobos. 
  • Differential changes in steroid hormones before competition in bonobos and chimpanzees. 
  • Direct and indirect reputation formation in nonhuman great apes (Pan paniscus, Pan troglodytes, Gorilla gorilla, Pongo pygmaeus) and human children (Homo sapiens). 
  • Does sympathy motivate prosocial behaviour in great apes? 
  • Evolution of ASPM coding variation in apes and associations with brain structure in chimpanzees. 
  • Evolution of water conservation in humans. 
  • FOXP2 variation in great ape populations offers insight into the evolution of communication skills. 
  • Fiber-type phenotype of the jaw-closing muscles in Gorilla gorilla, Pan troglodytes, and Pan paniscus: A test of the Frequent Recruitment Hypothesis. 
  • Gestural communication in subadult bonobos (Pan paniscus): repertoire and use. 
  • Great ape genetic diversity and population history. 
  • Great apes and human children rationally monitor their decisions. 
  • Great apes anticipate that other individuals will act according to false beliefs. 
  • Great apes distinguish true from false beliefs in an interactive helping task. 
  • Lethal aggression in Pan is better explained by adaptive strategies than human impacts. 
  • Making inferences about the location of hidden food: social dog, causal ape. 
  • Males with a mother living in their group have higher paternity success in bonobos but not chimpanzees. 
  • Metabolic acceleration and the evolution of human brain size and life history. 
  • Predicting body mass of bonobos (Pan paniscus) with human-based morphometric equations. 
  • Psychological health of orphan bonobos and chimpanzees in African sanctuaries. 
  • Ratcheting up the ratchet: on the evolution of cumulative culture. 
  • Reaching around barriers: the performance of the great apes and 3-5-year-old children. 
  • Reliance on head versus eyes in the gaze following of great apes and human infants: the cooperative eye hypothesis. 
  • Spontaneous triadic engagement in bonobos (Pan paniscus) and chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). 
  • The Pan social brain: An evolutionary history of neurochemical receptor genes and their potential impact on sociocognitive differences. 
  • The development and flexibility of gaze alternations in bonobos and chimpanzees. 
  • The evolutionary origins of human patience: temporal preferences in chimpanzees, bonobos, and human adults. 
  • The foot of Homo naledi. 
  • The hand of Homo naledi. 
  • The ontogenetic ritualization of bonobo gestures. 
  • Theft in an ultimatum game: chimpanzees and bonobos are insensitive to unfairness. 
  • Tolerance allows bonobos to outperform chimpanzees on a cooperative task. 
  • Visually attending to a video together facilitates great ape social closeness. 
  • Warlike chimpanzees and peacemaking bonobos. 
  • What's in a frame? Response to Kanngiesser & Woike (2016).