How fruit foraging shaped primate evolution
Allegra DePasquale is a Leakey Foundation grantee who studies how interactions between primates, fruiting plants, and other fruit-eating animals have shaped the evolution of key primate traits.
What burnt wood tells us about human history
Tefera Tarekegn Bayu is an archaeologist studying ancient charcoal remains to reconstruct how humans interacted with the environment.
Grantee Spotlight: Altayeb Abdalla Hassbrabo Mohammed
Altayeb Abdalla Hassbrabo Mohammed is a Leakey Foundation Baldwin Fellow from Sudan who is working to become an expert in stone tool analysis.
Leakey Foundation grantees elected to National Academy of Sciences
Three Leakey Foundation grantees were inducted into the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. on April 25, 2025. Membership in the Academy is a widely accepted mark of excellence in science and is one of the highest honors that a scientist can receive.
Understanding evolutionary mismatch with Audrey Arner
Why do rates of diabetes surge when traditional societies urbanize? The answer may lie in a concept called the "evolutionary mismatch hypothesis."
Vanderbilt University PhD candidate Audrey Arner is investigating this phenomenon with support from The Leakey Foundation.