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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How chimpanzees adapt to open habitats

Human Origins

Study on Issa Valley chimpanzees challenges traditional views on arboreal behaviour and hominin evolution

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Cell atlas of regenerating liver

Evolutionary Genetics

Leipzig scientists analyse 21,000 cells from tissue samples

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Local food production saves costs and carbon

Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture

Study highlights economic and environmental efficiency of Indigenous harvesting in the Canadian Arctic…

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