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Live This Month: November
Lecture, Lunch Break Science Join The Leakey Foundation for three exciting virtual events this November!
A study of skull growth and tooth emergence reveals that timing is everything
Journal Article Paleoanthropologists have wondered for a long time how and why humans evolved molars that emerge at these specific ages and why those ages are so delayed compared to living apes. New research solves this mystery.
Archaeologists find the oldest-known shell beads
Journal Article Shell beads found in a cave in Morocco are at least 142,000 years old. The archaeologists who found them say they're the earliest-known evidence of a widespread form of human communication.
Grantee Spotlight: Patrick Gathogo
Grantee Spotlight Dr. Patrick Gathogo is a geologist and research associate at Stony Brook University who is developing a new approach to geochronology that will extend the capability of the standard methods for dating hominid sites.
Live this Month: October
Lunch Break Science Join The Leakey Foundation for two exciting virtual programs this October!
Bone tools from Morocco indicate the production of clothing by 120,000 to 90,000 years ago
Journal Article The invention of clothing and the development of the tools needed to create it, are milestones in the story of humanity. A new study, supported in part by The Leakey Foundation, provides strong evidence for the manufacture of clothing as far back as 120,000 years ago.
Grantee Spotlight: Giulia Gallo
Grantee Spotlight Did all Neanderthals need or use fire? Giulia Gallo is a PhD candidate at UC Davis whose research is focused on Neanderthal fire use and maintenance. Her Leakey Foundation-supported project will help us to understand the different ways Neanderthals used fire.
Prehistoric climate change channelled human migrations across Arabia
Journal Article, In the News Researchers, supported in part by The Leakey Foundation, have found that early humans spread into Saudi Arabia multiple times over the past 400,000 years.
Did Dads Evolve?
Guest Post Most male mammals are not involved in raising their offspring. Anthropological observations of fatherhood can provide insight into how—and why—humans are so different.
Live This Month: August
The Leakey Foundation, Lunch Break Science Join The Leakey Foundation for three exciting virtual events this August!
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