Mushrooms may have been part of early human diets: primate study explores who eats what and when
A recent study from the Issa Valley in western Tanzania highlights a surprising, and potentially crucial, role for fungi in primate diets.
Grantee Spotlight: Maggie Hoffman
Does terrain shape chimpanzee social behavior? Primatologist Maggie Hoffman is finding out by studying wild chimps across three East African field sites.
A new face for ‘Little Foot’, the most complete Australopithecus skeleton to date
A new study reconstructs the 3.7 million-year-old face of Little Foot, the most complete Australopithecus skeleton ever found.
Grantee Spotlight: Shehani Fernando
What does urban life do to the gut microbiome? Researcher Shehani Fernando is finding out by studying wild macaques in Sri Lanka.
Grantee Spotlight: Maria Creighton
Maria Creighton is a PhD candidate at Duke University studying one of the most fundamental questions in social evolution: does having strong social bonds actually make you healthier, or do healthier people simply have more energy to be social?