Monthly Archives: September 2015

09.18.15

From the Field: Nikki Garret

From the Field
Niki Garrett is a PhD candidate from the University of Minnesota. She was awarded a Leakey Foundation research grant in the fall of 2013 for her project entitled “Compound specific paleoecology of Early Miocene hominoids from East Africa.” Here is a brief description of her research followed by a report from the field. I am interested in the relationship between ecological/climate change… more »
09.09.15

Modern human dispersal on the southern plain of Eastern Europe

Research Report
John Hoffecker John Hoffecker of the University of Colorado has been awarded 13 grants from The Leakey Foundation for his research at various sites in Eastern Europe. He has been awarded three for work at Shlyakh, an open-air Paleolithic site located in the Volgograd region of Russia. The most recent Leakey grant for this site was awarded in the spring of 2013. In August 2013 Hoffecker and his team performed… more »
09.02.15

Tooth eruption and life history in living chimpanzees

Research Report
Tanya Smith (R) and co-PI Zarin Machanda (L)  Tanya Smith, Associate Professor at Harvard was awarded a Leakey Foundation research grant in the spring of 2012 for her project entitled “Tooth eruption and life history in living chimpanzees.” Tanya Smith and her team study dental development patterns in chimpanzees in order to better understand the evolution of human development.  Previous… more »