Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology brings together scientists from diverse backgrounds (natural sciences and humanities) with the aim of investigating the history of humankind from an interdisciplinary perspective using comparative analyses of genes, cultures, cognitive abilities, languages and social systems of past and present human populations, as well as those of primates closely related to humans.

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Variability in human body vocabularies

Linguistic and Cultural Evolution

Linguistic analysis provides insight into the vocabularies for body parts in more than a thousand languages

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Jenny Tung elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences

Primate Behavior and Evolution

The U.S. National Academy of Sciences honors Jenny Tung for her outstanding contributions

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More plants on the menu of ancient hunter-gatherers

Former DepartmentsHuman Evolution

Isotopic evidence reveals surprising dietary practices of pre-agricultural human groups in Morocco

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