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04.06.18Happy Birthday Leakey Foundation!
The Leakey Foundation, 50th Anniversary Did you know that April 8th is the anniversary of The Leakey Foundation's first board meeting in 1968? This makes for the perfect time to launch festivities for The Leakey Foundation's 50th anniversary!
04.03.18From the Field: Julie Lesnik
From the Field Julie Lesnik was awarded a Leakey Foundation Research Grant during our fall 2015 cycle for her project entitled “An evaluation of termite-associated hydrocarbon signatures as an influence on prey selectivity and an ecological signal for chimpanzees and Olduvai hominins.”
03.28.18How Infighting Turns Toxic for Chimpanzees
Journal Article Power. Ambition. Jealousy. According to a new study, the same things that fuel deadly clashes in humans can also tear apart chimpanzees, our closest animal relatives.
03.27.18Grantee Spotlight: Marianne Brasil
Grantee Spotlight The timing, location, and circumstances of the origin of modern humans has long been of interest, and ongoing studies continue to refine our understanding of early modern human evolution. Leakey Foundation grantee Marianne Brasil is a PhD candidate from the University of California at Berkeley who is studying the skeletal morphology of early Homo sapiens from Middle Awash, Ethiopia.
03.20.18From the Field: Joel Bray, Tanzania
From the Field Joel Bray, a graduate student at Arizona State University, is studying the development of male-male social relationships in chimpanzees at Gombe National Park, Tanzania.
03.13.18From the Field: Carrie Miller, Ethiopia
From the Field Carrie Miller 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?”
02.27.18Grantee Spotlight: Sam Patterson
Grantee Spotlight Sam Patterson, PhD candidate from Arizona State University, was awarded a Leakey Foundation Research Grant for the project entitled "Maternal predictors of infant developmental trajectories in olive baboons."
02.21.18In 16 Years, Borneo Lost More Than 100,000 Orangutans
Journal Article, In the News Over a 16-year period, about half of the orangutans living on the island of Borneo were lost as a result of changes in land cover.
02.20.18Why Is Human Color Vision so Odd?
Guest Post Most mammals rely on scent rather than sight. Look at a dog’s eyes, for example: they’re usually on the sides of its face, not close together and forward-facing like ours. Having eyes on the side is good for creating a broad field of vision, but bad for depth perception and accurately judging distances in front.
02.15.18New Egyptian Dinosaur Reveals Ancient Link Between Africa and Europe
Journal Article, In the News The course of dinosaur evolution in Africa has largely remained a mystery. But in the Sahara Desert of Egypt, scientists have discovered a new species of dinosaur that helps fill in some gaps in the fossil record of dinosaurs in Africa: Mansourasaurus shahinae, a school-bus-length, long-necked plant-eater with bony plates embedded in its skin.
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