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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Syphilis had its roots in the Americas

Archaeogenetics

Syphilis originated in the Americas prior to the arrival of Columbus, and European colonialism made it…

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Oldest modern human genomes sequenced

Archaeogenetics

Genomes of seven early Europeans show they belonged to a small, isolated group that had recently mixed with…

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New timeline for Neandertal gene flow event

Evolutionary Genetics

Scientists unravel timing and impact of Neandertal gene flow into early modern humans

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