Husna Mashaka's research uncovers how climate and vegetation shifts shaped ancient human behavior. Her work offers insights for building climate resilience today.

Leakey Foundation grantee Abby McClain studies the impact of death, grief, and loss among the chimpanzees at Gombe National Park in Tanzania.

Georgina Luti, a Kenyan geologist and Leakey Foundation Francis H. Brown African Scholar is working to determine dates for the Gondolin and Kromdraai caves in South Africa’s Cradle of Humankind.

Alex Pelissero is a Leakey Foundation grantee who is using drones to make high-resolution maps of Oldupai Gorge to learn how ancient humans lived and moved across the landscape.

Laura MacLatchy is a a paleoanthropologist whose Leakey-funded research investigates fossil apes from Uganda to reveal how early apes adapted to grassy woodlands 20 million years ago.