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New research reveals how the black rat colonised Europe in the Roman and Medieval periods
Flexible adaptation to changing environmental conditions
New study of ancient milk proteins reveals the changing pastoralist strategies that laid the groundwork for the great steppe migrations of the…
Multidisciplinary research team sheds light on the 1,400-year-old mystery about the genetic origins of the Avar elite
Bigger brains have led some species of parrot to live surprisingly long lives, new research shows
An ERC Consolidator Grant was awarded to Johann-Mattis List, a research group leader in the Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution at the Max…
New details about tuberculosis’ evolutionary history in ancient South America point to a complex web of disease transmission in the pre-colonial…
Ancient genomes from the Himalayas illuminate the genetic history of Tibetans and their Tibeto-Burman speaking neighbors
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, welcomes Jenny Tung as new Director
A Covid-19 risk variant inherited from Neandertals reduces a person’s risk of contracting HIV by 27 percent
Researchers are investigating the cognitive abilities that allow animals to react to a rapidly changing environment
Eleven Max Planck projects receive starter grants from the European Research Councils (ERC); humanities and social sciences lead the internal ranking
Neanderthal variant of the protein glutathione reductase increases risk for inflammatory bowel disease and vascular disease
Children will confront their peers, but how they do so varies across cultures
Ancient human and animal DNA can remain stably localized in sediments, preserved in microscopic fragments of bone and feces
Denisova Cave has yielded new Denisovan remains associated with archaeological artifacts in its lowermost layers dating to 200,000 years ago
The games we play reflect the socio-ecological characteristics of the culture that we are in
DNA from 136 ancient Iberians reveals genomic and social transformations during the Copper Age to Bronze Age transition in southwestern Europe
Genomic study reveals an indigenous Bronze Age population that was genetically isolated but culturally cosmopolitan
Scientists from all over the world have published guidelines for how human remains should be handled
