The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology unites scientists with various backgrounds (natural sciences and humanities) whose aim is to investigate the history of humankind from an interdisciplinary perspective with the help of comparative analyses of genes, cultures, cognitive abilities and social systems of past and present human populations as well as those of primates closely related to human beings.

• Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology
• Department of Evolutionary Genetics
• Department of Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture
• Department of Human Evolution
• Department of Primatology

• Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology
• Department of Linguistics

• Max Planck Research Group on Single Cell Genomics

• Interim group Developmental and Comparative Psychology
• The Cuvette Centrale as reservoir of medicinal plants
• Junior Research Group of Primate Kin Selection
• ERC project: The influence of early life experience on later social skills in chimpanzee

• Max Planck Weizmann Center for Integrative Archaeology and Anthropology (MPWC)

• The Leipzig School of Human Origins