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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Enduring patterns in the world’s languages

Linguistic and Cultural Evolution

New study finds one-third of grammatical ‘universals’ stand up to rigorous testing

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Stone tools through generations

LMRG Technological Primates

New research shows 300,000 years of human technology, including the presence of toolmaking and butchering…

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Some early East Asians did not meet Denisovans

Evolutionary Genetics

Researchers reveal the dynamics of Denisovan ancestry in Eurasians over the past 40,000 years

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