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02.21.20Grantee Spotlight: Clare Kimock
Grantee Spotlight Clare Kimock is studying free-ranging rhesus macaques on the island of Cayo Santiago, Puerto Rico, one of the longest-running primate field sites in the world.
02.13.20First Ancient DNA from West Africa Illuminates the Deep Human Past
Journal Article, In the News A team of international researchers, with support from The Leakey Foundation, dug deep to find some of the oldest African DNA on record, in a new study published in Nature.
02.10.20Learn to Tell Your Science Story
The Leakey Foundation, Education The Leakey Foundation is offering a free online "Science Through Story" workshop to help Leakey Foundation grantees tell compelling stories about their research. This workshop will be held at 10 am Pacific on February 27, 2020.
02.05.20Grantee Spotlight: Dorien de Vries
Grantee Spotlight Dorien de Vries is tracing the evolutionary history of two groups of mammals that share some surprising similarities. Anthropoid primates (like humans, gorillas, baboons, and capuchins) and a group of rodents called the hystricognaths (like capybaras, guinea pigs, and naked mole rats). Their migratory histories make these animals excellent case studies for studying how ecological factors may have affected the evolution of their diversity.
02.05.20Archaeological Discoveries Are Happening Faster Than Ever Before
Guest Post New discoveries and new methods in paleoanthropology are helping to refine the human story. Just 20 years ago, no one could have imagined what scientists now know about humanity’s deep past, let alone how much knowledge could be extracted from a thimble of dirt, a scrape of dental plaque, or satellites in space.
01.20.20Monkeys Smashing Nuts Hint at How Human Tool Use Evolved
Journal Article, Guest Post Human beings used to be defined as “the tool-maker” species. But the uniqueness of this description was challenged in the 1960s when Dr. Jane Goodall discovered that chimpanzees will pick and modify grass stems to use to collect termites. Her observations called into question homo sapiens‘ very place in the world. Since then scientists’ knowledge of animal tool use has expanded exponentially.
01.13.20Introducing Our Fall 2019 Grantees
Grants, The Leakey Foundation We are pleased to announce the recipients of our fall 2019 research grants. This granting cycle, The Leakey Foundation is supporting the research of 27 scientists working at field sites and in laboratories around the world.
01.08.20Announcing the Joan Cogswell Donner Field School Scholarship
Grants, In the News, The Leakey Foundation The Leakey Foundation is proud to announce the Joan Cogswell Donner Field School Scholarship which will provide grants of up to $2,000 to students from countries where there are abundant scientific resources but limited resources for academic development.
01.06.20Chimpanzees more likely to share tools, teach skills when task is complex
Journal Article Teach a chimpanzee to fish for insects to eat, and you feed her for a lifetime. Teach her a better way to use tools in gathering prey, and you may change the course of evolution.
12.12.19Indonesian Cave Paintings Show the Dawn of Imaginative Art
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