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12.03.19Giving Tuesday Donations Will Be Matched
The Leakey Foundation, Support Us This Giving Tuesday, all donations up to $5,000 will be quadruple-matched, thanks to Gordon and Ann Getty and Leakey Foundation Fellow Gianni Amato. All donations above that amount will be doubled.
11.22.19Fossil Finders: Heselon Mukiri
Guest Post, Fossil Finders In this installment of our "Fossil Finders" series, Leakey Foundation Fellow Carol Broderick brings us the story of Heselon Mukiri who made several important discoveries and worked with Louis Leakey since the beginning of Leakey's career.
11.15.19Global Climate Change Concerns for Africa’s Lake Victoria
Journal Article Global climate change could cause Africa’s Lake Victoria, the world’s largest tropical lake and source of the Nile River, to dry up in the next 500 years, according to new findings funded in part by The Leakey Foundation. Even more imminent, the White Nile — one of the two main tributaries of the Nile — could lose its source waters in just a decade.
11.14.19From the Field: Kelly Ostrofsky, Uganda
From the Field Leakey Foundation grantee Kelly Ostrofsky spent the last several months working at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda, getting to know the mountain gorillas that live in the Ruhija sector of the forest.
11.04.19Grantee Spotlight: Andrew Bernard
Grantee Spotlight Will primates move to track changes in their habitats, or might they modify their behavior, or even adapt, in place? If they do move, why? What elements of their habitats are actually changing that make it more or less preferable? These questions frame Leakey Foundation grantee Andrew Bernard's dissertation research in Gunung Palung National Park, West Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo.
10.31.19The Piltdown Man Hoax
Origin Stories The latest episode of The Leakey Foundation's Origin Stories podcast explores the story of the infamous Piltdown Man hoax.
10.28.19Grantee Spotlight: Kelly Ostrofsky
Grantee Spotlight Leakey Foundation grantee Kelly Ostrofsky studies how wild apes move and climb in their natural habitats. As our closest living relatives, these apes provide an important comparative context for understanding how our ancestors may have moved and climbed.
10.24.19Five Fun Facts About Gibbons
Education In honor of International Gibbon Day, here are five fun facts about our gibbon cousins and one fact that's no fun at all.
10.19.19What Shapes the Human Gut Microbiome?
Journal Article A study published on October 8, 2019, in the journal Genome Biology finds that despite our close genetic relationship to apes, the human gut microbiome is more similar to that of baboons than it is to that of apes like chimpanzees.
10.11.19From the Field: Shannon McFarlin, Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda
From the Field Leakey Foundation grantee Shannon Mc Farlin sends an update from the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda where she has been cataloging the skeletal remains of mountain gorillas.
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