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09.06.17

Primate Tales: Scarlet, Booker, and Jolie

Primate Tales

Rachna Reddy was awarded a Leakey Foundation research grant during our spring 2016 cycle for her project entitled “The development of male reproductive strategies in wild chimpanzees.” Here we have a short story about a few of the chimps Rachna has been following in Kibale National Park, Uganda.

08.31.17

Origin Stories: Ancestor

Origin Stories

Just recently, the news media announced the discovery of a fossil ape called Alesi. This remarkable fossil was found in Kenya, and it’s from a time period where there’s a big blank spot in the fossil record of our family tree.

08.25.17

Origin Stories Season Two

Origin Stories is The Leakey Foundation’s podcast about how we became human. In six new episodes, Origin Stories takes you behind the scenes of some of the most exciting new discoveries in the study of human origins and profiles scientists whose work sheds light on some of the answers to the big questions about human evolution.