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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Leipzig research team discovers possible Black Death mass grave near Erfurt (Germany)

Archaeogenetics

Finds will provide material for genetic analyses at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

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Early hominins from Morocco reveal an African lineage near the root of Homo sapiens

Human Origins

773,000-year-old fossils from Thomas Quarry I in Morocco illuminate the shared ancestry of Homo sapiens,…

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How people see animals: They think and feel – but not like us

Comparative Cultural Psychology

Study documents similar assessments across cultures

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