Articles by Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Scientists recover an ancient woman’s DNA from a 20,000-year-old pendant

A human genome from the Ice Age refuge in southern Spain

To shed light on the archipelago’s settlement history, researchers sequenced and analyzed sixteen ancient genomes

Ancient human and animal DNA can remain stably localized in sediments, preserved in microscopic fragments of bone and feces

Scientists screened 1,785 ancient humans' genomes from the last 45,000 years for parental relatedness

Brain imprints on cranial bones from great apes and humans refute the long-held notion that the human pattern of brain asymmetry is unique