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.

Tanner Kovach is a Leakey Foundation grantee whose research explores how Neanderthals and Homo sapiens adapted to their environments and interacted during a key moment in human history.