Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary AnthropologyWelcome to the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology section on OpenEvo!

The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology was founded in 1997. 

Our institute unites scientists with various backgrounds (natural sciences and humanities) whose aim is to investigate the history of humankind from an interdisciplinary perspective with the help of 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 human beings.