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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Does fertility affect a woman's body odour?

Primate Behavior and Evolution

Also using chemical analysis, new study finds no evidence

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What about bipedalism in Sahelanthropus?

Human Origins

No evidence in Sahelanthropus postcranial remains supporting habitual bipedalism

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Investigating the biological and social structures of human societies

Archaeogenetics

An ERC Advanced Grant has been awarded to Wolfgang Haak, head of the Molecular Anthropology Research Group in…

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