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04.06.22Work with The Leakey Foundation
The Leakey Foundation The Leakey Foundation seeks a part-time administrative assistant to join our San Francisco-based team. The ideal candidate is someone who values our mission and wants to be an integral part of an organization working to make a difference in the world.
03.11.22How baboons keep healthy family boundaries
Journal Article Finding love in an isolated place can be tough when everyone is a familiar face, or when half the dating pool is already out because they’re all close relatives. That’s no less true for the wild baboons of Amboseli, who live in close-knit groups of 20 to 150 at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro in Kenya.
03.03.22Help primates on World Wildlife Day
Support Us Primates are among the most endangered animals on the planet, and they are key species for forest health and biodiversity. Thanks to their fruit-heavy diet, apes and monkeys are fantastic seed-dispersers that help support diverse plant and animal life in their forest habitats.
03.01.22Live March 2022
Speaker Series, Lunch Break Science Celebrate Women's History Month with The Leakey Foundation with these upcoming programs!
02.25.22Origin Stories: Discovering Us
Origin Stories, Book Shelf In the latest episode of Origin Stories, we talk with Evan Hadingham, senior science editor for the PBS program NOVA. His new book, Discovering Us: 50 Great Discoveries in Human Origins, highlights the thrilling fossil finds, groundbreaking primate behavior observations, and important scientific work of Leakey Foundation researchers.
02.25.22Event: Frans de Waal discusses gender through the eyes of a primatologist
Speaker Series See world-renowned primatologist Dr. Frans de Waal's first public lecture on his new book Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist at The Leakey Foundation's first hybrid event on April 5, 2022.
02.24.22Ancient DNA helps reveal social changes in Africa that shaped the human story
Journal Article, Behind the Science An interdisciplinary team has sequenced and analyzed the oldest ancient DNA from Africa. This new research gives insights into the lives, movements, and relations of people who lived in Africa between 18,000 and 5,000 years ago.
01.31.22Liran Samuni wins 2021 Gordon P. Getty Grant
Grants, The Leakey Foundation Dr. Liran Samuni has been awarded The Leakey Foundation's 2021 Gordon P. Getty Grant. This award honors scientists whose multidisciplinary research significantly advances science related to human origins, evolution, behavior, and survival.
01.14.22Introducing our fall 2021 grantees
The Leakey Foundation, Grants We are pleased to announce the recipients of our fall 2021 Leakey Foundation Research Grants. These 39 scientists embody our mission of increasing scientific knowledge and public understanding of human evolution, behavior, and survival.
01.05.22Richard Leakey, renowned paleoanthropologist and conservationist dies at age 77
In the News Paleoanthropologist and conservationist Richard Erskine Frere Leakey, whose discoveries helped show that humankind evolved in Africa, died on January 2, 2022, at age 77.
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