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Origin Stories: Face Mites
Origin Stories Listen as we explore the lives of face mites, and learn how studying these close personal friends of ours may help us answer new questions about our own evolution.
Grantee Spotlight: Marian Hamilton
Grantee Spotlight We awarded Marian Hamilton a Leakey Foundation Research Grant during our fall 2015 cycle for her project entitled "Assessing philopatry and range size with strontium isotopes."
Ancient wildebeest-like animal shared ‘bizarre’ feature with dinosaur
Journal Article By poring over the fossilized skulls of ancient wildebeest-like animals unearthed on Kenya’s Rusinga Island, researchers have discovered that the little-known hoofed mammals had a very unusual, trumpet-like nasal passage similar only to the nasal crests of lambeosaurine hadrosaur dinosaurs.
Group structure predicts variation in proximity relationships between male–female and male–infant pairs of mountain gorillas
Journal Article Dr. Rosenbaum and her team were recently published in the journal Primates. She was kind enough to provide us with a brief summary of this article as well as a related article published in the journal PLOS ONE.
Grantee Spotlight: Kathryn Ranhorn
Grantee Spotlight Kathryn Ranhorn was awarded a Leakey Foundation Research Grant during our fall 2015 cycle for her proposal entitled "New approaches to the archaeology of modern human origins."
Happy Birthday Charles Darwin!
Today in History, Book Shelf When I was young and first learned about Charles Darwin and On the Origin of Species, I was immediately enamored with him and his story.
Ring in the Lunar New Year with Monkey Cuvée
The Leakey Foundation In case you haven't heard, our friends at Iron Horse Vineyards have created a special, limited edition “Year of the Monkey” cuvée, and a portion of the proceeds from the sale of this sparkling wine benefits The Leakey Foundation! Here we have guest blogger Tarin Teno sharing some fun information about Chinese New Year celebrations as well as a few ways to compliment this special wine.
Grantee Spotlight: Jamie Clark
Grantee Spotlight Jamie Clark (University of Alaska Fairbanks) was awarded a Leakey Foundation Research Grant during our fall 2015 cycle for her project entitled "Early Upper Paleolithic hunting strategies at Mughr el-Hamamah, Jordan."
From the Field: Alia Gurtov
From the Field With the start of 2016, it is time for a progress update. As I write, I am sitting in a pleasantly overheated café while Madison, WI, withers in 5° F temperatures. This couldn’t feel more different from the conditions in which I first wrote about my research.
Grantee Spotlight: Timothy Campbell
Grantee Spotlight Timothy Campbell, PhD candidate at Texas A&M, was awarded a Leakey Foundation Research Grant during our fall 2015 cycle for his project entitled “Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of Sterkfontein and Swartkrans using rodent postcrania.” Many theories of hominin behavioral and morphological evolution have focused on the environments occupied by early members of our lineage in… more »
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