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

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Beethoven’s genome

Archaeogenetics

Scientists have sequenced the composer’s genome using five genetically matching hair locks

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Language acquisition in multilingual children

LMRG BirthRites

Researchers studied the vocal experiences of children growing up on Malakula Island in Vanuatu where…

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Surprising similarities in stone tools of early humans and monkeys

LMRG Technological Primates

Accidentally produced stone fragments made by macaques resemble some of the earliest hominin stone artifacts

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