From the Field: Alia Gurtov
With the start of 2016, it is time for a progress update. As I write, I am sitting in a pleasantly overheated café while Madison, WI, withers in 5° F temperatures. This couldn’t feel more different from the conditions in which I first wrote about my research.
Grantee Spotlight: Timothy Campbell
Timothy Campbell, PhD candidate at Texas A&M, was awarded a Leakey Foundation Research Grant during our fall 2015 cycle for his project entitled “Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of Sterkfontein and Swartkrans using rodent postcrania.”
Simon Mataro (left) and Tim Campbell (right) after finding modern micromammal remains under an active owl roost in Laetoli, Tanzania
Many theories of hominin behavioral and morphological evolution
Grantee Spotlight: Kaitlin Wellens
The next grantee from our fall 2015 cycle is Kaitlin Wellens, PhD candidate from The George Washington University. She was awarded a grant for her project entitled “Maternal effects on juvenile chimpanzee social behavior and physiological stress.”
Kaitlin Wellens
Mothers can have a tremendous impact on various aspects of their offspring’s early development, including behavior, stress responses, cognition, and even
Book Shelf: The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack
It’s a demanding story of old bones, their finders and keepers, their interpreters slugging it out over taxonomy and ultimate meaning.
From the Field: Alexandra Uhl
In the spring of 2014 The Leakey Foundation awarded Alexandra Uhl, PhD candidate from the University of Tübingen in Germany, a research grant for her project entitled “Sex determination in geographically and ontogenetically diverse samples.” To read a short summary of her work on our blog, click here.
Recently she got in touch with us with a short update. Following