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Dr. Jörg Noack
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, LeipzigPhone: +49 341 3550-120
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Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
04103 Leipzig
Fax: +49 341 3550-119
The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology focuses on matters regarding the origins of humankind. The Institute’s researchers study widely-differing aspects of human evolution. They analyse the genes, cultures, languages and cognitive abilities of people living today and compare them with those of apes and extinct peoples. Scientists from various disciplines work closely together at the Institute: for example, linguists and psychologists aim to discover how languages develop and how people learn languages. Geneticists trace the genetic make-up of extinct species, such as Neanderthals. Behaviourists and ecologists, for their part, study the behaviour of apes and other mammals.
Directors / Research Focus
- Christophe Boesch (Primatology)
- Bernard Comrie (Linguistics)
- Jean-Jacques Hublin (Human Evolution)
- Svante Pääbo (Evolutionary Genetics)
- Michael Tomasello (Developmental and Comparative Psychology)
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