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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The origins of language

Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture

Wild chimpanzees alter the meaning of single calls when embedding them into diverse call combinations,…

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Collaboration on Ancient DNA and Archaeology

Evolutionary Genetics

The international round table was dedicated to the study of ancient human DNA based on archaeological data

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Phoenician culture spread mainly through cultural exchange

Archaeogenetics

Study challenges long-held assumptions about the Mediterranean Phoenician-Punic civilization, one of the most…

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