News and research highlights from the department "Evolution of Sensory and Physiological Systems"

A shift to a fruit diet may have paved the way for the evolution of spectacular displays in manakins. more

Evolution finds both repeated and unique solutions as birds adapt to high-sugar diets more

Evolution has provided birds with a clever strategy to eat extremely acidic fruit  more

Eighth department at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence will investigate the evolution of sensory and physiological systems  more

Woodpeckers taste sweet, but wrynecks—unusual woodpeckers that specialize on ants—lost the ability to taste sugars more

Songbird ancestors evolved a new way to taste sugar more