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Grantee Spotlight: Carrie Miller
Grantee Spotlight Carrie Miller is a PhD candidate from the University of Minnesota. She was awarded a Leakey Foundation Research Grant during our spring 2017 cycle for her project entitled "Does paternity certainty elicit protection and support of offspring by male gelada monkeys?"
Grantee Spotlight: Elaine Guevara
Grantee Spotlight Elaine Guevara was awarded a Leakey Foundation Research Grant during our spring 2017 cycle for her project entitled "Epigenetics of primate longevity."
Science Speakeasy: Fake or Fact?
Science Speakeasy The Leakey Foundation is teaming up with the Bay Area Science Festival to explore how to separate what’s fake and what’s fact when it comes to science.
Video: Isaiah Nengo
Speaker Series, Video On October 12, 2017, The Leakey Foundation in partnership with the Chicago Council of Science and Technology (C2ST) presented “Alesi: The Life, Death, and Discovery of an Ancestor” with speaker Isaiah Nengo.
The recent discovery of a 13 million-year-old fossil infant ape skull has offered a rare glimpse of what the common ancestor of all living apes and humans may have looked like. The fossil, nicknamed… more »
Grantee Spotlight: Joel Bray
Grantee Spotlight Joel Bray is a PhD candidate from Arizona State University. He was awarded a Leakey Foundation Grant to study the role of development and early social experiences in male chimpanzee social behavior.
From the Field: Kristin Sabbi, Uganda
From the Field Kristin Sabbi was awarded a Leakey Foundation Research Grant during our spring 2016 cycle. Here she updates us on her third field season in Kibale National Park, Uganda.
Grantee Spotlight: Laura Abondano
Grantee Spotlight We are excited to begin sharing the work of our spring 2017 grantees! Here we have Laura Abondano, who was awarded a Leakey Foundation Research Grant for her project entitled "Mating strategies of female lowland woolly monkeys in Amazonian Ecuador."
A Giant Advantage: Baseball in Our Bones
Guest Post, Science Speakeasy Guest blogger Rebecca O’Neill shares her impressions of our July 12th installment of Science Speakeasy, A Giant Advantage: Baseball in Our Bones.
From the Field: Cayo Santiago, Puerto Rico
From the Field Leakey Foundation grantee Erica Dunayer has provided us with a post-hurricane Maria update from Cayo Santiago, Puerto Rico.
Primate Tales: Scarlet, Booker, and Jolie
Primate Tales Rachna Reddy was awarded a Leakey Foundation research grant during our spring 2016 cycle. Here we have a short story about a few of the chimps Rachna has been following in Kibale National Park, Uganda.
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