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, languages and social systems of past and present human populations as well as those of primates closely related to human beings.

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

• Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology
• Department of Linguistics
• Department of Primatology

• Max Planck Research Group BirthRites - Cultures of Reproduction
• Max Planck Research Group Single Cell Genomics

• The Cuvette Centrale as reservoir of medicinal plants
• Primate Behavioural Ecology
• Evolution of Brain Connectivity (EBC)
• ERC project: The influence of early life experience on later social skills in chimpanzee
• Taï Chimpanzee Project (TCP)

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

• The Leipzig School of Human Origins