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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“Gene scissors”: Synthetic CRISPR gRNAs almost always cut

Evolutionary Genetics

Additionally, the new study reveals factors that drive efficient, precise editing and hidden DNA repair

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Language connection discovered in chimpanzee brains

Human OriginsHuman Behavior, Ecology and Culture

The architecture for complex communication already existed in the common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees

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Different ways of ‘getting a grip’

Human Origins

Researchers uncover new evidence of how ancient human relatives in South Africa used their hands, revealing…

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