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“A byword for European justice”

May 08, 2013

Interview with Burkhard Hess, Founding Director at the new Max Planck Institute in Luxembourg more

Cultural fragments: Glagolitsa, the oldest known Slavic alphabet, is regarded as a textbook example of successful cultural transfer and acculturation. The scholar and monk Constantine from the city of Thessaloniki developed it around 863 on the basis of the Greek minuscule script, also incorporating Semitic and Caucasian script systems.

Deep in the sediments of integrated culture

April 08, 2013

At the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Dittmar Schorkowitz studies how the process of cultural transfer unfolded during the encounters of Eurasian populations in the Middle Ages. more

The great orchestral work of speech

February 25, 2013

Brain Language

Max Planck Institute Director Peter Hagoort researches the complex score in the brain that enables humans to speak more

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MaxPlanckResearch 4/2024: Focus: Do I have a choice?

To mark the end of the Year of Science ‘Freedom’, we are dedicating this issue to freedom of choice. We explore the question of whether free will exists and, if so, what could constitute it. Neurobiology is also investigating this with ever new approaches. How free we are in our decisions is also a topic of research in the context of choosing a partner. This is because it is only chance that plays a role here; there are also patterns that can be proven demographically. Chance also determines where and into which family we are born. Epigenetic studies show how our origins influence the course of our lives and, above all, our health.

Newsroom – Category: Humanities

“A byword for European justice”

Deep in the sediments of integrated culture

The great orchestral work of speech

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