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Author: Niba Nirmal

Baboon skeletons, health, and human evolution

Claire Kirchhoff, a Leakey Foundation grantee and professor at Marquette University, studies baboon skeletons from Gombe National Park to explore how bones reflect behavior, health, and social life.

How diet impacts primate evolution

Jacqueline Garnett is a PhD candidate at Washington University in St. Louis whose research asks what the impact of previous evolution is on future evolutionary potential. Her Leakey-funded project is focused on the role of diet in evolution.

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