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Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
phone: +49 (341) 3550 - 0
fax: +49 (341) 3550 - 119
e-mail: info@[>>> Please remove the brackets! <<<]eva.mpg.de
Max Planck Day - September 14, 2018
The Germany-wide Max Planck Day is aimed at anyone interested in research and, in general, every curious person: #wonachsuchstdu encourages all visitors to ask their own questions about the research topics of the Max Planck Society! At the same time, the Max Planck Institutes are presenting some of the questions our researchers are currently working on.
Research is curiosity >>> #wonachsuchstdu
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Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
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.
Departments
Max Planck Research Group
Research Groups hosted by the institute
- Interim group Developmental and Comparative Psychology
- Max Planck Weizmann Center for Integrative Archaeology and Anthropology (MPWC)
- 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
International Max Planck Research School
Web documentary "Science without frontiers"
Using the example of three research groups from Dresden, Halle and Leipzig in Central Germany, the web documentary "Science without frontiers" (MDR Wissen) illustrates that science thrives on internationality and diversity. One of the institutions that producer Lisa Kettwig visited is the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.