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08.10.15Grantee Spotlight: Davide Faggionato
Grantee Spotlight Davide Faggionato Davide Faggionato was awarded a Leakey Foundation research grant during our spring 2015 cycle for his project entitled “Molecular and functional analysis of vision in three hominin species.” Hominin paleogenomics, the study of genomes retrieved from fossil hominin remains, has revolutionized the way we study human evolution. For the first time, we can sample DNA from… more »
08.05.15Origin Stories Episode 04: How to Document a Society
Origin Stories This episode of Origin Stories is about what it takes to document the daily lives of chimpanzees, what we’ve learned, and how to handle all the data that’s been collected during the longest running study of any animal in the wild. In the 55 years since Louis Leakey sent Jane Goodall to the Gombe forest to study chimpanzees, we’ve learned a lot about the lives and behavior of these wonderful… more »
08.03.15Grantee Spotlight: Ashley Hammond
Grantee Spotlight Ashley Hammond of the George Washington University was awarded a Leakey Foundation research grant during our spring 2015 cycle for her project entitled “Reconstructing phenotypic change of the pelvis in apes and humans.” Ashley Hammond
I study how the skeletal anatomy of primates relates to locomotion. The hipbone differs dramatically among living primates adapted for different locomotion, and… more »
07.27.15Grantee Spotlight: Rebecca Miller
Grantee Spotlight Rebecca Miller is a researcher at the University of Liege. She was awarded a Leakey Foundation research grant during our spring 2015 cycle for her project entitled “The Middle-Upper Paleolithic transition at Trou Al’Wesse (Belgium).” Her co-investigators are John Stewart and Keith Wilkinson. Rebecca Miller
Trou Al’Wesse (literally ‘cave of the wasp) is a narrow cave… more »
07.23.15From the Field: Nicole Squyres
From the Field Nicole Squyres is a PhD candidate from Johns Hopkins University. She was awarded a Leakey Foundation research grant in our fall 2014 cycle for her project entitled “Morphological variation in the distal femur of modern humans and fossil hominins.” Nicole Squyres
The Leakey Foundation Research Grant has funded my travels to several different skeletal collections both within the US and… more »
07.20.15Grantee Spotlight: Tyler Faith
Grantee Spotlight Tyler Faith is a researcher from the University of Queensland in Australia. He was awarded a Leakey Foundation research grant during our spring 2015 cycle for his project entitled "Middle Stone Age of the Gwasi and Uyoma Peninsulas, Kenya."
07.14.15From Our Grants Department: The July 15th Deadline for Our Fall Cycle Approaches!
Grants by H. Gregory The Leakey Foundation office in the Presidio of San Francisco
While many of you are busy putting the final touches on your grant application for our fall 2015 cycle, I thought I would post some information you may find handy.
For those of you who have not met the The Leakey Foundation grants department staff, Paddy Moore is our grant officer, and I am the grant associate. It is our job to facilitate… more »
07.13.15Grantee Spotlight: Kelsey Ellis
Grantee Spotlight Kelsey Ellis is a PhD candidate at the University of Texas at Austin. During our spring 2015 cycle she was awarded a Leakey Foundation research grant for her project entitled “Grouping dynamics of woolly monkeys (Lagothrix poeppigii) in Amazonian Ecuador.” Kelsey Ellis
Multilevel societies are recognized as some of the most complex social systems found in nature and have been identified… more »
07.06.15Grantee Spotlight: Gabriele Schino
Grantee Spotlight Gabriele Schino was awarded a Leakey Foundation research grant during our fall 2014 cycle for his project entitled “The emotional basis of primate reciprocity.” He and his collaborator Elsa Addessi are from the Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, National Research Council in Rome, Italy. Gabriele Schino and Elsa Addessi
Reciprocal cooperation is a prominent characteristic… more »
07.02.15Grantee Spotlight: Halszka Glowacka
Grantee Spotlight Halszka Glowacka is a PhD candidate at Arizona State University. She was awarded a grant during our spring 2015 cycle for her project entitled “Biomechanical constraints on molar emergence in primates.”
Halszka Glowacka in Hadar, Ethiopia Human life history is unique among living primates. Humans grow slowly and have long lifespans coupled with short inter-birth intervals, resulting… more »
Halszka Glowacka in Hadar, Ethiopia Human life history is unique among living primates. Humans grow slowly and have long lifespans coupled with short inter-birth intervals, resulting… more »
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