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11.14.18From the Field: Rosa Moll, Morocco
From the Field It is rare to have the opportunity to visit the sites that define our human history around the world. Recently, Rosa Moll, a Leakey Foundation Baldwin Fellow from South Africa visited the site of Jebel Irhoud in Morocco, famous for the oldest modern Homo sapiens fossils in the world.
11.07.18Origin Stories Returns November 15
Origin Stories, Press Release The Leakey Foundation's award-winning Origin Stories podcast returns for a third season on November 15 with eight all-new audio documentaries about how we became human. In addition, this season will feature archival material from the Foundation's 50-year archive of lectures from brilliant scientists such as Dian Fossey, Mary Leakey, Margaret Mead, and Carl Sagan. The season three trailer is out now.
10.30.18Grantee Spotlight: Jonathan Reeves
Grantee Spotlight Jonathan Reeves is a Leakey Foundation grantee from the George Washington University who is studying how the environment shaped our movement over the course of our evolutionary history by looking at the stone tools Pleistocene people carried and discarded.
10.29.18Earliest Hominin Migrations into the Arabian Peninsula
Journal Article, In the News A new study provides evidence for hominins in ‘Green Arabia’ between 500,000 and 300,000 years ago alongside direct environmental data indicating productive, relatively humid grasslands.
10.26.18Grantee Spotlight: Rachel Bynoe
Grantee Spotlight Rachel Bynoe is a paleolithic archaeologist researching the submerged archaeology of the southern North Sea. She received a Leakey Foundation research grant in 2017 to explore an underwater archaeological site off the coast of Happisburgh, England.
10.24.18Five Fun Facts About Gibbons
EducationOctober 24 marks “Internation Gibbon Day,” a day to celebrate gibbons and raise awareness about the threats faced by these endangered primates. In honor of International Gibbon Day, here are are five fun facts about our gibbon cousins and one fact that’s not fun at all.
Fact # 1 – Gibbons are “lesser apes”
Gibbons are not monkeys. They… more »
10.24.18Join The Leakey Foundation for Bay Area Discovery Days
Education, Press Release The Leakey Foundation will be offering fun hands-on science activities for children and families at two upcoming Bay Area Science Festival Discovery Days.
10.22.18Two Chicago Events Explore Chimpanzee Behavior
Speaker Series, Press Release The Leakey Foundation has partnered with the Chicago Council on Science and Technology, the Lincoln Park Zoo, and Columbia College Chicago to bring primate behavioral ecologist John Mitani to Chicago for two exciting events about chimpanzee behavior.
10.16.18From the Field: Abigale Koppa, Colorado
From the Field After returning from her final field season in Amboseli, Abigale Koppa went to work at the Nutritional and Isotopic Ecology Lab (NIEL) at the University of Colorado Boulder to analyze plant samples she collected in Kenya.
10.15.18Neanderthal-like Features in 450,000-Year-Old Fossil Teeth from Italy
Journal Article Fossil teeth from Italy, among the oldest human remains on the Italian Peninsula, show that Neanderthal dental features had evolved by around 450,000 years ago.
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