The Leakey Foundation

08.30.16

Grantee Spotlight: Mathew Fox

Mathew Fox, PhD candidate from the University of Arizona, was awarded a Leakey Foundation Research Grant during our spring 2016 cycle for his project entitled "Paleoenvironments of Homo erectus occupations in the Luonan Basin, China."

08.23.16

Grantee Spotlight: Rebecca Miller

Grantee Spotlight

Rebecca Miller of the University of Liege was awarded a Leakey Foundation Research Grant for her project entitled "The Middle-Upper Paleolithic transition at Trou Al'Wesse in Belgium."

08.18.16

Video: The Secret Lives of Female Chimpanzees

The Leakey Foundation, Speaker Series, Video

On August 17, The Leakey Foundation in partnership with the Chicago Council of Science and Technology (C2ST) presented “The Secret Lives of Female Chimpanzees” with guest speaker Melissa Emery Thompson.

08.17.16

Grantee Spotlight: Evelyn Pain

Grantee Spotlight

Evelyn Pain is currently a PhD candidate at Stony Brook University. She was awarded a Leakey Foundation Research Grant during our spring 2016 cycle for her project entitled "Functions of male woolly monkey morphological variation in Yasuní, Ecuador."

08.16.16

Twenty-Five Little Bones Tell a Puzzling Story About Early Primate Evolution

Journal Article, In the News

A cache of exquisitely preserved bones, found in a coal mine in the state of Gujarat, India, appear to be the most primitive primate bones yet discovered, according to an analysis led by researchers from The Johns Hopkins University and Des Moines University, funded in part by a grant from The Leakey Foundation.

Monthly Archives: August 2016

Grantee Spotlight: Mathew Fox

Grantee Spotlight: Rebecca Miller

Video: The Secret Lives of Female Chimpanzees

Grantee Spotlight: Evelyn Pain

Twenty-Five Little Bones Tell a Puzzling Story About Early Primate Evolution