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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First ancient genomes from the Green Sahara deciphered

Archaeogenetics

A new study reveals a long-isolated North African human lineage in the Central Sahara during the African humid…

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Modelling the demography of agricultural transitions

Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture

Researchers develop a new potential standard tool for studying prehistoric transitional periods

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Why humans have a smaller face than Neanderthals

Human Origins

In Homo sapiens, facial growth stops at puberty

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