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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Some monkey species unintentionally produce sharp-edged flakes

LMRG Technological Primates

Stone tools may be by-products of using percussion tools

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Dialects in chimpanzees

Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture

Study shows human influence has led to loss of chimpanzee culture and calls for conservation strategies to…

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East Asia meets Europe in Lower Austria

Archaeogenetics

Ancient genomes show integration of genetically different groups to the same early medieval Avar society in…

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