From the Field: E.A. Quinn, Nubri, Nepal
Leakey Foundation grantee E.A. Quinn of Washington University sent this video field report from her research in Nubri, Nepal. Her project investigates the associations between adaptation to a high altitude environment, mother’s milk, and infant growth. It was filmed by her colleague Geoff Childs.
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Research Report: Dynamics of population growth by Cebus capucinus in Costa Rica
The population of white-faced capuchin monkeys (Cebus capucinus) in the Sector Santa Rosa (SSR) of the Area de Conservación Guanacaste in northwestern Costa Rica offers a unique opportunity to model how landscape variability affected selection on early hominins. This species shows many anatomical and behavioral convergences with great apes and humans, and they thrive in a broad range of environmental
Ta ̈ı chimpanzees anticipate revisiting high-valued fruit trees from further distances
Baldwin Fellow Simone Dagui Ban is a PhD student from the Félix Houphouët Boigny University in Côte d’Ivoire. Following the 2010-11 election crisis that made studying in her home country impossible, Ban was given the opportunity to study at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology for one year. She was awarded her first Franklin Mosher Baldwin Memorial Fellowship in
Grantee Spotlight: Philip A. Slater
In spring of 2013 Philip A. Slater, PhD candidate at the University of Illinois, was awarded a Leakey Foundation research grant for his project entitled “Planning and technological organization in the Kenyan MSA and LSA.” The following is a short update on his progress.
Small and intentionally dug hole that contained about 550 artifacts. The people at the site (~94,000
Exploring ‘Ein Qashish, a Middle Paleolithic site in northern Israel
Erella Hovers
Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Excavation of ‘Ein Qashish
Traditionally, studies of Levantine (eastern Mediterranean) Middle Paleolithic sites have focused on caves, and so exploration of the open-air ‘Ein Qashish site presents a novel opportunity to expand our understanding of the behavioral dynamics of Middle Paleolithic hominins (modern humans as well as Neanderthals) in the region.