International Max Planck Research School Contact
The Leipzig School of Human Origins
c/o Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
Germany
phone: ++49 (0) 341 3550 122
fax: ++49 (0) 341 3550 119
e-mail: leipzig-school@[>>> Please remove the brackets! <<<]eva.mpg.de
Research groups
Comparative and Molecular Primatology (Director: Christophe Boesch)
- Bonobos: Behavioral Physiology, Socio-ecology, and Sociality (MPI, Hohmann/Fruth)
- Chimpanzees (MPI, Boesch/Wittig)
- Endocrinology Laboratory (MPI, Deschner)
- Gorillas (MPI, Robbins)
- Great Ape Evolutionary Ecology and Conservation (MPI, Kühl)
- Molecular Genetics Laboratory (MPI, Vigilant)
- New Human and Chimpanzee Spatial Cognition (MPI, NN)
- Behavioral Ecology (LU, Widdig)
- General Zoology and Neurobiology (LU, Rübsamen)
Evolutionary and Functional Genomics, Ancient DNA, Molecular Anthropology and Genome Bioinformatics (Director: Svante Pääbo)
- Neandertals and More (MPI, Pääbo)
- Human Population History (MPI, Stoneking)
- Information in Evolution (MPI, Lachmann)
- The Minerva Research Group for Bioinformatics (MPI, Kelso)
- Genetic Diversity and Selection (MPI, Andrés)
- Selenium and Genome Annotation (MPI, Castellano)
- Genomes (MPI, Prüfer)
- Advanced DNA Sequencing Techniques (MPI, Meyer)
- Applied Computer Science, Bioinformatics (LU, Stadler)
- Molecular Biochemistry (LU, Schöneberg)
- Molecular Evolution and Animal Systematics (LU, Schlegel)
Human Paleontology, Prehistoric Archeology and Archeological Science (Director: Jean-Jacques Hublin)
- Diet, Climate and Migration Studies (MPI/UBCV Richards)
- Artifact Analysis (MPI, McPherron)
- Comparative Anatomy (MPI, Kivell)
- Dating (MPI, Fitzsimmons)
- Faunal Analysis (MPI, Mannino)
- Field Work (MPI, McPherron)
- Microstructure Analysis (MPI, NN)
- Virtual Paleoanthropology (MPI, Gunz)
- 3D Morphometrics (MPI, Gunz)
- Plant Foods in Hominin Dietary Ecology (MPI, Henry)
- Pre- and Protohistory (UL, Veit)