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).
Glottolog, maintained at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, classifies several languages with ISO codes as spurious.
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Its managing editors are Balthasar Bickel (University of Zurich), Bernard Comrie (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and University of California, Santa Barbara), and Ekkehard König (Freie Universität Berlin).