So researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, decided to compare adult chimpanzees, gorillas and bonobos with human children of a year or 18 months in age.

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"It's a wonderful contribution and another piece of the mosaic" supporting the out-of-Africa hypothesis, said Ekkehard Wolff, professor emeritus of African Languages and Linguistics at the University of Leipzig in Germany, who read the paper.

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One customer, Kerstin Schilling, chief executive of Bestsidestory GmbH, an online marketing provider based in Leipzig, Germany, hesitated a year before committing to Web-based software from SAP, in part because the firm evoked fears of long project installations and high costs.

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The Institute University of Leipzig, in Germany has a major genetic study called LIFE to examine disease in populations.

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Ms Schneider recalls how the videos captured at Leipzig Zoo in Germany show a bonobo mother shaking her head in disapproval when her infant plays with some food.

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Some of the clothes are manufactured at a corrections facility in Halle, near Leipzig, in Eastern Germany.

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At No. 2, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany has a doctorate from Leipzig University.

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Germany's MDR radio says the scandal is particularly bad news for Saxony, the state where Leipzig is located, because it has many patients urgently in need of transplants.

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