From the Field: Alexandra Uhl at the StEvE Conference, University of Tübingen
Leakey Foundation grantee Alexandra Uhl, PhD candidate from the University of Tübingen in Germany, reports from the StEvE Conference.
EvE is a semester seminar series at the University of Tübingen with speakers who talk about their research in Evolution and Ecology. The StEvE conference is organized within the EvE for Students… So St(udents) and EvE = StEVE.
Each year StEvE
From the Field: Alexandra Uhl at the StEvE Conference, University of Tübingen
Leakey Foundation grantee Alexandra Uhl, PhD candidate from the University of Tübingen in Germany, reports from the StEvE Conference.
EvE is a semester seminar series at the University of Tübingen with speakers who talk about their research in Evolution and Ecology. The StEvE conference is organized within the EvE for Students… So St(udents) and EvE = StEVE.
Each year StEvE
From the Field: Isaiah Nengo, Lake Turkana Basin, Kenya
Leakey Foundation grantee Isaiah Nengo (spring 2014) has recently returned from the field with exciting news!
Isaiah Nengo at work in the Lake Turkana Basin
Plio-Pleistocene sediments of the Lake Turkana basin have provided numerous fossils key to our current understanding of the origin and evolutionary history of the hominid lineage in Africa. Scattered within the vast Plio-Pleistocene deposits are
Dispatches from the Amazon
November, Board President Don Dana, along with Leakey Grantees Nick Toth and Kathy Schick ventured into the dense jungle of the Amazon Rainforest in search of the Huaorani tribe. Their quest… to learn about the Huaorani’s method of hunting with blowguns and poison darts, dipped in curare. Though The Leakey Foundation did not have a hand in funding this amazing
Studying Hormonal Stimuli in Mountain Gorillas Yields Many Clues
By Sosthene Habumuremyi
My study has gathered data on mating behavior, solicitations, and any displays/aggression from adult males towards the females. Sexual swellings, which are extremely small in gorillas, are also noted.
The plan is to monitor at least 6 nulliparous (never having given birth to offspring) females and 10 cycling parous (given birth to offspring at least once) females