The Leakey Foundation

10.30.18

Grantee Spotlight: Jonathan Reeves

Jonathan Reeves is a Leakey Foundation grantee from the George Washington University who is studying how the environment shaped our movement over the course of our evolutionary history by looking at the stone tools Pleistocene people carried and discarded.

10.29.18

Earliest Hominin Migrations into the Arabian Peninsula

A new study provides evidence for hominins in ‘Green Arabia’ between 500,000 and 300,000 years ago alongside direct environmental data indicating productive, relatively humid grasslands.

10.26.18

Grantee Spotlight: Rachel Bynoe

Grantee Spotlight

Rachel Bynoe is a paleolithic archaeologist researching the submerged archaeology of the southern North Sea. She received a Leakey Foundation research grant in 2017 to explore an underwater archaeological site off the coast of Happisburgh, England.

10.24.18

Join The Leakey Foundation for Bay Area Discovery Days

Education, Press Release

The Leakey Foundation will be offering fun hands-on science activities for children and families at two upcoming Bay Area Science Festival Discovery Days.

10.22.18

Two Chicago Events Explore Chimpanzee Behavior

Speaker Series, Press Release

The Leakey Foundation has partnered with the Chicago Council on Science and Technology, the Lincoln Park Zoo, and Columbia College Chicago to bring primate behavioral ecologist John Mitani to Chicago for two exciting events about chimpanzee behavior.

Monthly Archives: October 2018

Grantee Spotlight: Jonathan Reeves

Earliest Hominin Migrations into the Arabian Peninsula

Grantee Spotlight: Rachel Bynoe

Join The Leakey Foundation for Bay Area Discovery Days

Two Chicago Events Explore Chimpanzee Behavior