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05.19.20Down Ancient Trails
Education, Lecture Leakey Foundation grantee Shanti Pappu and her colleagues are hosting free online lectures on archaeology and human evolution. Many of the featured speakers are Leakey Foundation grantees.
05.14.20Fossil footprints reveal snapshot of group behavior in prehistoric humans
Journal Article The largest collection of footprints from the human fossil record in Africa is described in Scientific Reports this week. The findings, which further our understanding of human life during the Late Pleistocene period, suggest a division of labor in ancient human communities.
05.08.20Pardis Sabeti on Evolutionary Forces in Humans and Pathogens
Video This month's featured video is Dr. Pardis Sabeti's talk on "Evolutionary Forces in Humans and Pathogens" from our 2016 Survival Symposium. This symposium focused on evolution and the many challenges facing the survival of our species.
04.23.20Punishing Selfish Behavior May Be a Universal Human Response
Journal Article New research by Leakey Foundation Scientific Executive Committee Member Joan Silk suggests that humans willingly incur costs to punish selfishness in others, and our societies are likely more cooperative as a result.
04.21.20Lesson Plans for Online Learning
The Leakey Foundation, Education As teachers scramble to move courses online during the coronavirus pandemic, The Leakey Foundation understands the urgent need to offer free, high quality educational tools. A challenge of this magnitude requires creative solutions to meet the demand, and that is why the Foundation is focusing on projects that address the critical situation facing educators today.
04.15.20Ancient Teeth from Peru Hint Now-Extinct Monkeys Crossed Atlantic from Africa
Journal Article A new discovery, funded in part by The Leakey Foundation, helps date the transatlantic migration of primates to about 34 million years ago, around the time a major drop in sea level would have made the ocean voyage shorter.
04.13.20Dozens of Non-Human Primate Species Are Vulnerable to COVID-19
Journal Article, Behind the Science Dozens of non-human primate species, including our closest relatives, are at risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection and are vulnerable to COVID-19, which could have devastating impacts on populations of primates that are already endangered.
04.09.20Colombian Primatologist to Give Virtual Talk
Education, Lecture Join us on Friday, April 10 at 5 pm CST/GMT-5 (2 pm Pacific) to hear Natalia Camargo discuss her experience studying chimpanzees in Kibale National Park for the past year.
04.09.20Origin Stories: The Punan Batu
Origin Stories Deep in the remote forests of Indonesian Borneo lives a society of hunter-gatherers who speak a language never before shared with outsiders. Until now. The latest episode of Origin Stories tells the story of the Cave Punan people and their urgent plea for help to save their forest home.
04.03.20In South Africa, Three Hominins, Including Earliest Homo erectus, Lived during the Same Period
Journal Article Nearly 2 million years ago, three hominin genera - Australopithecus, Paranthropus and the earliest Homo erectus lineage - lived as contemporaries in the karst landscape of what is now South Africa, according to a new geochronological evaluation of the hominin fossil-rich Drimolen Paleocave complex.
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