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10.12.17Grantee 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."
10.11.17A 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.
09.28.17From 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.
09.06.17Primate 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.
08.31.17Origin Stories: Ancestor
Origin Stories Just recently, the news media announced the discovery of a fossil ape called Alesi. This remarkable fossil was found in Kenya, and it’s from a time period where there’s a big blank spot in the fossil record of our family tree.
08.25.17Origin Stories Season Two
The Leakey Foundation, Origin Stories Origin Stories is The Leakey Foundation’s podcast about how we became human. In six new episodes, Origin Stories takes you behind the scenes of some of the most exciting new discoveries in the study of human origins and profiles scientists whose work sheds light on some of the answers to the big questions about human evolution.
08.24.17From the Field: Matt Tocheri, Indonesia
From the Field Matt Tocheri was awarded a Leakey Foundation Research Grant during our fall 2016 cycle for his project entitled “New archaeological excavations at Liang Bua (Flores, Indonesia)." Here he updates us on the beginning of his 2017 field season.
08.10.17Questions and Answers About Alesi
Journal Article, In the News, Behind the Science Research findings on 'Alesi,' a newly discovered 13 million-year-old fossil ape species, were published this week in the journal Nature and the story has been widely carried in the press. The research team behind the Nyanzapithecus alesi discovery has collaborated to put together this list of questions and answers.
08.10.17Grantee Spotlight: Matt Tocheri
Grantee Spotlight Matt Tocheri was awarded a Leakey Foundation Research Grant during our fall 2016 cycle for his project entitled “New archaeological excavations at Liang Bua (Flores, Indonesia).”
08.09.17New 13 million-year-old infant skull sheds light on ape ancestry
Journal Article, In the News The discovery in Kenya of a remarkably complete fossil ape skull reveals what the common ancestor of all living apes and humans may have looked like.
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