The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (German: Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie) is a research institute based in Leipzig, Germany, founded in 1997. It is part of the Max Planck Society network.
The institute comprises five departments (Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Evolutionary Genetics, Human Evolution, Linguistics, and Primatology) and several Junior Scientist Groups, and currently employs about three hundred and thirty people.
Well-known scientists currently based at the institute include Svante Pääbo (genetics), Bernard Comrie(linguistics), Michael Tomasello (psychology), Christophe Boesch (primatology), and Jean-Jacques Hublin(evolution).
