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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New genomic study uncovers family ties linking Scythian elite burials across the Eurasian steppe

Archaeogenetics

Ancient DNA reveals how political power and elite status may have been maintained among Iron Age nomadic…

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Ancient teeth suggest Homo naledi fossils in a cave may all be female

Human Origins

New protein analysis adds to the mystery of how these bones ended up deep underground

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Neandertals in North-Western Europe in focus

Evolutionary Genetics

New genetic study reveals regional diversity shortly before Neandertals disappeared

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