10.13.22The Origins of Rocks and Humans with Dr. Patrick Gathogo
Lunch Break Science Join Dr. Patrick Gathogo live on Lunch Break Science October 20, 2022 for an exploration of geology, the origin and ‘genetics’ of rocks, and human evolution!
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03.01.22Live March 2022
Lunch Break Science, Speaker Series Celebrate Women's History Month with The Leakey Foundation with these upcoming programs!
02.25.22Event: Frans de Waal discusses gender through the eyes of a primatologist
Speaker Series See world-renowned primatologist Dr. Frans de Waal's first public lecture on his new book Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist at The Leakey Foundation's first hybrid event on April 5, 2022.
11.02.21Live This Month: November
Lecture, Lunch Break Science Join The Leakey Foundation for three exciting virtual events this November!
10.01.21Live this Month: October
Lunch Break Science Join The Leakey Foundation for two exciting virtual programs this October!
08.04.21Live This Month: August
The Leakey Foundation, Lunch Break Science Join The Leakey Foundation for three exciting virtual events this August!
06.30.21Live this Month: July
Support Us, Lunch Break Science Join The Leakey Foundation for three exciting virtual events this July!
06.04.21Live this Month: June
Lecture, Lunch Break Science, Speaker Series, Education, Travel Join The Leakey Foundation for an exciting lineup of virtual events this June!
03.31.21Live this Month: April
Speaker Series, Lecture, Lunch Break Science Join The Leakey Foundation for four online programs this April.
02.03.21Live this Month: February
Lecture, Lunch Break Science, The Leakey Foundation, Speaker Series Join us for three fascinating live programs this month. Learn about the hominin fossil record and explore what Charles Darwin got right–and wrong about human evolution.
01.04.21Live this Month: January 2021
Speaker Series, Lecture, Lunch Break Science, Young Professionals Group Join The Leakey Foundation for these January 2021 live programs.
12.01.20Live this Month: December 2020
Lunch Break Science This month's episodes of Lunch Break Science feature Leakey Foundation grantees Isaiah Nengo and Eduardo Fernandez-Duque. Join us live on December 3 and December 17.
11.25.20Eduardo Fernandez-Duque receives The John P. McGovern Award Lecture in the Behavioral Sciences
In the News, Lunch Break Science The Leakey Foundation is thrilled to congratulate Dr. Eduardo Fernandez-Duque for receiving The John P. McGovern Award Lecture in the Behavioral Sciences from the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
10.14.20Irene Gallego Romero discusses Denisovan DNA in a virtual lecture
Speaker Series Join Leakey Foundation grantee Dr. Gallego Romero for a virtual lecture on her ongoing research in partnership with local researchers in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. She will characterize the legacy of DNA from archaic Denisovans that is present-day Papuan DNA. She will also explore the positioning of Indonesia in the global human genetics landscape.
09.26.20Lunch Break Science #11: Rachel Bynoe discusses underwater archaeology
Lunch Break Science Have you ever wondered what it’s like to excavate an archaeological site underwater? Grab your lunch and join archaeologist Rachel Bynoe for an exploration of her work uncovering ancient artifacts from a submerged Pleistocene site off Happisburgh, England.
08.27.20Lunch Break Science Announcement!
Lunch Break Science The Leakey Foundation’s new series Lunch Break Science has been a great success with over 7,000 views of episodes since its launch on June 25. The series was originally slated to run through August 27th, but don’t pack up your lunches quite yet! Lunch Break Science has been renewed for another 26 episodes starting Thursday, October 1st.
08.20.20Are you enjoying Lunch Break Science? Help us plan our next season!
Lunch Break Science The Leakey Foundation’s new live-stream series Lunch Break Science has been a great success. We’ve spent the summer hearing about the exciting research Leakey Foundation grantees are conducting all over the world. Now it's time to plan what comes next and we need your help!
07.01.20Zarin Machanda on Chimpanzee Communication and Relationships
Video, Education, Lunch Break Science This month’s featured video is primatologist Zarin Machanda’s talk from The Leakey Foundation’s new web series Lunch Break Science. Dr. Machanda is assistant professor of anthropology at Tufts University and director of the Kibale Chimpanzee Project. Her talk explores the surprisingly nuanced world of chimpanzee vocalizations and gestures.
06.09.20Summer Virtual Series Lunch Break Science Launches June 25
Education, Lecture The Leakey Foundation is excited to announce our summer virtual series Lunch Break Science will be streaming to our Facebook and YouTube pages starting Thursday, June 25 at 11 am PDT.
02.05.20Grantee Spotlight: Dorien de Vries
Grantee Spotlight Dorien de Vries is tracing the evolutionary history of two groups of mammals that share some surprising similarities. Anthropoid primates (like humans, gorillas, baboons, and capuchins) and a group of rodents called the hystricognaths (like capybaras, guinea pigs, and naked mole rats). Their migratory histories make these animals excellent case studies for studying how ecological factors may have affected the evolution of their diversity.
11.30.18San Francisco Lecture Explores New Discoveries about Chimpanzees
Speaker Series From culture to warfare, from our diet to our politics, the study of wild chimpanzees continues to change the way we understand both human nature and the apes themselves.
09.10.18Seeing the World Through a Tarsier’s Eyes
Guest Post, 50th Anniversary Tarsiers are small (tennis ball-sized) nocturnal primates that have the largest eyes relative to body size of any known living or extinct vertebrate. Their enormous eyes are thought to enhance visually-guided predation by increasing visual sensitivity in dim light and contrasting an object of focus with a progressive depth of field.
08.06.18Fall 2018 Lectures Announced
Speaker Series Mark your calendar for our fall 2018 lecture series featuring Nina Jablonski, John Mitani, and Craig Stanford.
05.01.18Scientists in the Classroom
Video, Education Dr. Erin Vogel is a four-time Leakey Foundation grant recipient who has shared her research with over 250 students through The Leakey Foundation’s classroom visit program.
10.20.17Science Speakeasy: Fake or Fact?
Science Speakeasy The Leakey Foundation is teaming up with the Bay Area Science Festival to explore how to separate what’s fake and what’s fact when it comes to science.
04.15.16Human Evolution and Earth’s Tipping Point
Being Human Join The Leakey Foundation and Elizabeth Hadly on April 19th and celebrate Earth Day.
04.17.15Human Ecological Dominance
Speaker Series Rob Blumenschine’s Leakey Speaker Series talk, “Olduvai Gorge and the Origin of Human Ecological Dominance,” is coming up on April 22, 2015 at the California Academy of Sciences. Rob will discuss how humans have become one of the most adaptable and ecologically dominant species through intelligence and technology. What makes Rob so qualified to discuss this topic?
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