Kathelijne Koops (2006) and fellow researchers at Cambridge’s Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies have discovered evidence that some wild chimpanzees in Guinea’s Nimba Mountains use tools to cut their food into smaller, more chewable bits.
The research, which has been published in the journal Primates, has been picked up the BBC and the New York Daily News.
Mac MacKay [2026] studies how the brain turns thought into speech. For him, that question is deeply personal. Born with verbal dyspraxia, he has spent years trying to understand the […]
Mitali Chowdhury [2026] discovered her passion for biotechnology early in her undergraduate studies and is dedicated to using it to create affordable, high quality public health products, such as diagnostic […]
Dr Ramit Debnath has been appointed Executive Director of the Centre for Human-Inspired Artificial Intelligence [CHIA]. Ramit [2018] is Assistant Professor at the University of Cambridge. He specialises in human-centric […]
Ella McPherson [2004] is Professor of the Sociology of Media and Technology and Co-Director of the Centre of Governance and Human Rights at the University of Cambridge. She will be […]
