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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.
10.02.19Grantee Spotlight: Amy Scott
Grantee Spotlight Leakey Foundation grantee Amy Scott is studying orangutans in Indonesia in order to better understand how sexual conflict shapes orangutan reproductive strategies. The role of sexual conflict is often overlooked in models of human evolution, but the centrality of sexual conflict in shaping the reproductive strategies of both male and female orangutans, one of our closest living relatives, emphasizes the importance of considering how sexual conflict has shaped human evolution.
09.30.19Fall Speaker Series on Human Origins
Speaker Series The Leakey Foundation's "Speaker Series on Human Origins" brings world-class speakers to give fascinating public lectures at museums and other institutions around the United States. The fall 2019 series will feature the latest discoveries and developments in paleoanthropology and human evolution research, including current research on Denisovans and Neanderthals, the importance of children and grandmothers in understanding human origins, and a celebration of the 45th anniversary of the discovery of "Lucy."
09.18.19Two Ways to Watch “Our Tribal Nature: Tribalism, Politics, and Evolution”
The Leakey Foundation, Speaker Series If you are in New York, the best way to join us for "Our Tribal Nature: Tribalism, Politics, and Evolution" is to purchase one of the few remaining tickets and watch it live at the Morgan Library. If you can't make it in person, you can watch via livestream on our YouTube channel or Facebook page!
09.17.19Explore Human Behavior at “Our Tribal Nature: Tribalism, Politics, and Evolution”
The Leakey Foundation, Speaker Series Join us on September 19 at the Morgan Library in New York to examine the evolutionary origins and function of tribalism, our social transition from tribes to states, and the role tribal identity plays in our increasingly divided world.
09.03.19The Leakey Foundation to Hold Symposium on Tribalism, Politics, and Evolution
The Leakey Foundation, Speaker Series, Survival, Press Release At a moment when society feels dangerously polarized, fragmented and unstable, the symposium “Our Tribal Nature: Tribalism, Politics, and Evolution” offers a forum for understanding our human urge to form alliances.
08.28.19A 3.8-Million-Year-Old Fossil From Ethiopia Reveals the Face of Lucy’s Ancestor
Journal Article, In the News Leakey Foundation grantee Dr. Yohannes Haile-Selassie and his team of researchers have discovered a "remarkably complete" cranium of a 3.8-million-year-old early human ancestor from the Woranso-Mille paleontological site, located in the Afar region of Ethiopia.
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