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MPI-EVA Leipzig

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MPI-EVA Leipzig

@MPI_EVA_Leipzig

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Leipzig, Germany

eva.mpg.de/index.html

Joined March 2019

MPI-EVA Leipzig
@MPI_EVA_Leipzig
Oct 4, 2022
This morning, everyone @MPI_EVA_Leipzig joined in to welcome and congratulate our very own #NobelPrize laureate, Svante Pääbo, one of our institute's founding directors and brilliant mind! We are totally ecstatic and delighted! 😊🥳🥰 @maxplanckpress @NobelPrize
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@MPI_EVA_Leipzig
Jun 18, 2019
"‘Puppy dog eyes’ evolved so dogs could communicate with us" - Article by @edbites in @NatGeo on a recent publication in @PNASNews (bit.ly/2Fg8w9C) by @MPI_EVA_Leipzig alumna @_Caninski_ from @portsmouthuni, and colleagues! nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/0…
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Evolution of facial muscle anatomy in dogs | PNAS
Domestication shaped wolves into dogs and transformed both their behavior and their anatomy. Here we show that, in only 33,000 y, domestication tra...
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@MPI_EVA_Leipzig
Feb 2, 2023
New director for @MPI_EVA_Leipzig! 🥳 We are happy to welcome palaeoanthropologist @TracyKivell whose new department will study the emergence & evolution of our earliest fossil human relatives & our closest living cousins, the African apes. @maxplanckpress eva.mpg.de/press/news/art…
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Feb 23, 2022
New director for @MPI_EVA_Leipzig! 🥳 So happy to welcome evolutionary anthropologist & geneticist Jenny Tung @jtung5 whose new department will study primate behavior, life history & evolution using genetic & behavioral approaches. Pic 2: @clynfitzpatrick eva.mpg.de/press/news/202…
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@MPI_EVA_Leipzig
Jul 27, 2023
New hybrid hypothesis for the origin and spread of the Indo-European #languages. New study in @ScienceMagazine by an intl. research team of linguists and geneticists led by @MPI_EVA_Leipzig. See: tinyurl.com/mr2bxeaw & doi.org/10.1126/scienc…
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Aug 16, 2023
#Ötzi: dark skin, bald head, Anatolian ancestry. High-quality sequencing of his genome gives new insights. Study in @CellGenomics by an intl. team led by Ke Wang, Johannes Krause & @AlbZink. @MPI_EVA_Leipzig @EURAC @oetzimuseum tinyurl.com/yc6xrysj & cell.com/cell-genomics/…
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Oct 19, 2022
Meet the first #Neandertal family! Ancient #genomes of thirteen Neandertals provide a rare snapshot of their community & social organization. New study in @Nature by @SkovLaurits, @benmpeter & an intl. team. @MPI_EVA_Leipzig See: bit.ly/3yP5h4I & nature.com/articles/s4158…
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@MPI_EVA_Leipzig
Apr 19, 2023
New database #Grambank documents patterns of grammatical variation in over 2400 of the world’s #languages & shows their diversity. This project was initiated by the Dept. of Linguistic & Cultural Evolution @MPI_EVA_Leipzig. See: bit.ly/3mDOQWg & doi.org/10.1126/sciadv…
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@MPI_EVA_Leipzig
Dec 12, 2024
Oldest modern human #genomes sequenced. These seven early #Europeans belonged to a small, isolated group that left no present-day descendants. Study @Nature led by @arevsumer, Kay Prüfer, Johannes Krause @MPI_EVA_Leipzig. tinyurl.com/mryrjyrn & nature.com/articles/s4158…
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@MPI_EVA_Leipzig
May 11, 2020
New ~45,000-year-old fossils from Bulgaria document the oldest Upper Paleolithic Homo sapiens in Europe. Papers by @jjhublin, @HelsFewlass et al. now out in @nature & @NatureEcoEvo. @MPI_EVA_Leipzig More: bit.ly/2SUjcBA & nature.com/articles/s4158… & nature.com/articles/s4155…
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@MPI_EVA_Leipzig
Jun 18, 2024
Congrats to @haak_wolfgang, group leader in the Dept. of Archaeogenetics @MPI_EVA_Leipzig, for being awarded an @ERC_Research Advanced Grant for his project ROAMANCE to explore the biological & social structures of past human societies! 🥳 @maxplanckpress tinyurl.com/32p3tek4
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@MPI_EVA_Leipzig
Jan 16, 2023
Marriage in Minoan Crete. Intl. team led by @MPI_EVA_Leipzig researchers @SkourEirini, @StockhammerPh & Johannes Krause analysed over 100 genomes of Bronze Age people from the Aegean & gained new insights into their social order. nature.com/articles/s4155… & bit.ly/3GE2UVw
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MPI-EVA Leipzig
@MPI_EVA_Leipzig
Oct 14, 2022
📢📢 Join our vibrant research community @MPI_EVA_Leipzig! We're offering PhD and/or postdoc positions in areas incl. primate behavior & evolution; human adaptation, ecology & culture; human evolutionary genomics. Check it out & apply by 1st December 2022!
eva.mpg.de
Positions available - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
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@MPI_EVA_Leipzig
Apr 14, 2020
For her outstanding scientific achievements former PhD student @MatejaHajdi of @MPI_EVA_Leipzig is awarded the prestigious Otto Hahn Medal for young researchers in the Max Planck Society. Congratulations, Mateja! 🥳