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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Quantitative Cultural Evolution celebrates its 50th anniversary

Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture

Special feature explores the origins, development, and future of a multidisciplinary field of research

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DNA evidence rewrites story of people buried in Pompeii eruption

Archaeogenetics

Genetic analysis challenges traditional narratives about Pompeii’s past and reveals Pompeians’ cosmopolitan…

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New approach to understanding historical disease outbreaks

Archaeogenetics

Alexander Herbig receives ERC Synergy Grant to study the complex influences of genetics, environment, society…

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