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    1. Ecology
    2. Evolutionary Biology
    Silhouette of a rhesus macaque on a yellow/orange background.

    The Natural History of Model Organisms: The rhesus macaque as a success story of the Anthropocene

    Eve B Cooper, Lauren JN Brent ... James P Higham
    The rhesus macaque is a non-human primate that is widely used as a model organism in ecology, evolutionary biology and behavioural science.
    1. Ecology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Mountain gorillas maintain strong affiliative biases for maternal siblings despite high male reproductive skew and extensive exposure to paternal kin

    Nicholas M Grebe, Jean Paul Hirwa ... Stacy Rosenbaum
    Mountain gorillas, who live in close-knit social groups with siblings and non-siblings of both sexes throughout their lives, show distinct behavioral biases towards maternal versus paternal kin.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Medicine

    The vaginal immunoproteome for the prediction of spontaneous preterm birth: A retrospective longitudinal study

    Zachary Shaffer, Roberto Romero ... Nardhy Gomez-Lopez
    The vaginal immunoproteome in pregnancy is more predictive of spontaneous preterm birth (sPTB) than maternal characteristics alone, with sPTB cases showing heightened pro-inflammatory profiles accompanied by reduced levels of antimicrobial proteins/peptides.
    1. Neuroscience

    OpenApePose, a database of annotated ape photographs for pose estimation

    Nisarg Desai, Praneet Bala ... Benjamin Hayden
    A dedicated dataset for non-human apes improves pose estimation and tracking accuracy in apes.
    1. Ecology

    Mummified baboons reveal the far reach of early Egyptian mariners

    Nathaniel J Dominy, Salima Ikram ... Paul L Koch
    The fabled land of Punt is mapped for the first time using quantitative methods from the disciplines of primatology, geochemistry, and geography.
  1. Annual Report: 2020 in review

    We reflect on eLife’s efforts to drive change in scientific and medical publishing during an eventful year.
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Oxygen isotopes in orangutan teeth reveal recent and ancient climate variation

    Tanya M Smith, Manish Arora ... Daniel R Green
    A new high-resolution approach to probing tooth chemistry shows real potential to uncover changing rainfall patterns and environmental conditions during human prehistory.
    1. Epidemiology and Global Health

    Local human movement patterns and land use impact exposure to zoonotic malaria in Malaysian Borneo

    Kimberly M Fornace, Neal Alexander ... Chris Drakeley
    Local human movement into mosquito habitats around forest edges intensifies interactions between pathogens, insects and people, increasing exposure risks to the zoonotic malaria Plasmodium knowlesi in Malaysian Borneo.
    1. Ecology
    2. Epidemiology and Global Health

    Personality links with lifespan in chimpanzees

    Drew M Altschul, William D Hopkins ... Alexander Weiss
    Among captive chimpanzees, higher agreeableness males and higher openness females survive longer.
    1. Ecology

    Group-specific archaeological signatures of stone tool use in wild macaques

    Lydia V Luncz, Mike Gill ... Suchinda Malaivijitnond
    Tool behaviour of long-tailed macaques leaves archaeological signatures that differ between populations despite similar ecological conditions, highlighting the potential for diversity in material culture.

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