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Category: Grantee Spotlight

Grantee Spotlight: Penina Kadalida

​​Penina Kadalida is a Leakey Foundation Baldwin Fellow whose research will help us better understand the biology of aging and how evolutionary history still shapes our lives today.

Grantee Spotlight: Maggie Hoffman

Does terrain shape chimpanzee social behavior? Primatologist Maggie Hoffman is finding out by studying wild chimps across three East African field sites.

Grantee Spotlight: Shehani Fernando

What does urban life do to the gut microbiome? Researcher Shehani Fernando is finding out by studying wild macaques in Sri Lanka.

Grantee Spotlight: Maria Creighton

Maria Creighton is a PhD candidate at Duke University studying one of the most fundamental questions in social evolution: does having strong social bonds actually make you healthier, or do healthier people simply have more energy to be social?

I [name], of [city, state ZIP], bequeath the sum of $[ ] or [ ] percent of my estate to L.S.B. Leakey Foundation for Research Related to Man’s Origins, Behavior & Survival, (dba The Leakey Foundation), a nonprofit organization with a business address of 1003B O’Reilly Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94129 and a tax identification number 95-2536475 for its unrestricted use and purpose.

If you have questions, please contact Sharal Camisa Smith sharal at leakeyfoundation.org. 

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