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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Charting the evolution of European literature

Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture

Oleg Sobchuk has received an ERC Starting Grant to study 200 years of European literary evolution

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Reconstructing the long-term dynamics of human infectious diseases

Archaeogenetics

Arthur Kocher receives ERC Starting Grant to study ancient pathogen dynamics

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How the Slavic migration reshaped Central and Eastern Europe

Archaeogenetics

Genetic analyses of medieval human remains reveal large-scale migrations, regional diversity, and new insights…

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