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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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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Into the great wide open: How steppe pastoralist groups formed and transformed over time

Archaeogenetics

Genetic study of the wider Caucasus region shows how movement of people and innovation transfer enabled…

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Not all bonobos are the same – three genetically distinct populations in the Congo

Evolutionary Genetics

Historically small population at high risk of extinction

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