From the Field: Alexandra Uhl at the StEvE Conference, University of Tübingen
Leakey Foundation grantee Alexandra Uhl, PhD candidate from the University of Tübingen in Germany, reports from the StEvE Conference.
EvE is a semester seminar series at the University of Tübingen with speakers who talk about their research in Evolution and Ecology. The StEvE conference is organized within the EvE for Students… So St(udents) and EvE = StEVE.
Each year StEvE
From the Field: Isaiah Nengo, Lake Turkana Basin, Kenya
Leakey Foundation grantee Isaiah Nengo (spring 2014) has recently returned from the field with exciting news! Isaiah Nengo at work in the Lake Turkana Basin
Plio-Pleistocene sediments of the Lake Turkana basin have provided numerous fossils key to our current understanding of the origin and evolutionary history of the hominid lineage in Africa. Scattered within the vast Plio-Pleistocene deposits are
Grantee Spotlight: Nathan Thompson
Nathan Thompson explaining to a kinematic subject how head motion relates to the semicircular canal organs in the inner ear.
Nathan Thompson, PhD candidate from Stony Brook University, was awarded a Leakey Foundation research grant in spring of 2014 for his project entitled “Kinematics and evolution of upper body stability in hominins.”
Humans are unique among our primate relatives
Stress in wild female Assamese macaques
Julia Ostner
University of Göttingen
Researchers have been performing daily focal observations and fecal sampling on this study group of habituated Assamese macaques in Thailand’s Phu Khieo Wildlife Sanctuary since October 2006. For her investigation of ecological, social and reproductive stress in female macaques, Julia Ostner used data collected between September 2007 and February 2009. This time period included two
Irven DeVore: 1934-2014
Irven DeVore. Photo from The Leakey Foundation Archive
The world is made less joyful with the recent passing of Dr. Irven DeVore. He passed away on Tuesday, September 23, 2014 from heart failure.
Irv joined The Leakey Foundation as a Trustee in 1974 and served until 1978. He became Co-Chair of the Scientific Executive Committee in 1980 and was later