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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First articulating leg of Paranthropus robustus discovered

Human Origins

Fossils from Swartkrans Cave in South Africa reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was habitually…

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Origin and diversity of Hun Empire populations

Archaeogenetics

Far-reaching genetic ties between the Mongolian steppe and Central Europe under Hun rule

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Social memory in great apes

Comparative Cultural Psychology

Great apes, like humans, remember objects better when introduced by a social agent, but develop this skill…

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