Announcing the fall 2025 Baldwin Fellows
The Leakey Foundation is proud to introduce three returning Baldwin Fellowship recipients for our fall 2025 granting cycle.
Stephen Magohe awarded Francis H. Brown African Scholarship
Stephen Magohe, a geologist and assistant lecturer at the University of Dar es Salaam, has received a second year of support through the Francis H. Brown African Scholarship.
Introducing the fall 2025 Leakey Foundation research grant recipients
Meet the 30 scientists who received Fall 2025 research grants from The Leakey Foundation to study human origins, evolution, behavior, and survival.
Risks young chimps take as they swing through the trees underscore role of protective parenting in humans
A new study of wild chimpanzees reveals that young chimps are the biggest daredevils, challenging what we think about risk-taking in human adolescence.
Life in fossil bones: what we can learn from tiny traces of ancient blood chemicals
A new way of analyzing fossils might one day make it possible to describe past habitats as precisely as we can describe modern ones.