From 1997 to 1999 he was a lecturer at the School of Biological Sciences at the
University of Liverpool (UK). Then in 1999 he moved to the
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in
Leipzig,
Germany where he is currently a senior scientist, co-founder and co-director of the
Wolfgang Köhler Primate Research Centre. Call also holds the post of Professor in Evolutionary Origins of Mind at the
University of St Andrews, where his focus is on technical and social problem solving in animals with a special emphasis on the great apes.[1]
Research
Among other topics, Call has worked to identify the unique cognitive and cultural processes that distinguish humans from their nearest
primate relatives, the
great apes. He has published two books and nearly two hundred research articles and book chapters on the cognition and behavior of apes and other animals. He is currently the editor of the Journal of Comparative Psychology and a member of the editorial board of several other academic journals.
Tomasello, M., Carpenter, M., Call, J., Behne, T. & Moll, H. (2005). Understanding and sharing intentions: The origins of cultural cognition.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28, 1-17.
Call, J. (2017), “Bonobos, chimpanzees and tools: Integrating species-specific physiological biases and socio-ecology,” in Hare, Brian & Yamamoto, Shinya (eds.), Bonobos: Unique in Mind, Brain, and Behavior, Oxford UP.