Grantee Spotlight: Pamela Akuku
Leakey Foundation Baldwin Fellow Pamela Akuku uses fossilized animal bones to reconstruct ancient environments and understand the animals and hominins of prehistoric times.
The extinction of the giant ape: A long-standing mystery solved
Giant creatures are usually associated with dinosaurs, woolly mammoths, or mystical beasts. But if you go back through the human lineage you’ll find a very distant relative that stood three metres tall and weighed around 250 kilograms. This was Gigantopithecus blacki, the mightiest of all the primates and one of the biggest unresolved mysteries in paleontology.
Gordon Getty’s 50 years of visionary leadership
Gordon Getty joined The Leakey Foundation in 1973 and has led the board of trustees since 1980. His leadership has made the foundation the thriving nonprofit it is today.
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This December, your donation to The Leakey Foundation will be quadruple-matched thanks to a group of generous sponsors.
Songs to make the forest happy
Music is universal in all human cultures, but why? New Leakey Foundation-supported research explores the evolutionary function of music and singing. The study focuses on women from the Mbendjele BaYaka, a hunter-gatherer community in the Republic of the Congo with a strong musical tradition. This research offers intriguing insights into how music fosters social bonding and communication.