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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Leonardo Iasi and Rhianna Drummond-Clarke receive the Otto Hahn Medal

Human OriginsEvolutionary Genetics

Each year, the Max Planck Society recognises young researchers for their exceptional scientific achievements…

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Uncovering the roots of cooperation and culture

Research Groups

Liran Samuni has started a new research group at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in…

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Molecular change helps balance nutrition and detoxification in modern humans

Evolutionary Genetics

A control switch in an enzyme is present in most modern humans, but absent in Neandertals

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