Group structure predicts variation in proximity relationships between male–female and male–infant pairs of mountain gorillas
Dr. Rosenbaum and her team were recently published in the journal Primates. She was kind enough to provide us with a brief summary of this article as well as a related article published in the journal PLOS ONE.
Cranial evolution in modern humans and neanderthals
Timothy Weaver, UC Davis
Timothy Weaver was awarded a Leakey Foundation Research Grant in the spring of 2010 for his project entitled “Cranial evolution: Neandertals and modern humans compared to chimpanzees.”
Explaining the meaning of skeletal differences between neanderthals and modern humans has been a topic of debate since the discovery of neanderthals in 1856. Differences in cranial morphology have
Validation of an Acoustic Location System to Monitor Bornean Orangutan Long Calls
Flanged male orangutan. Photo: Mure Wipfli
Brigitte Spillmann, PhD candidate at the University of Zurich, was awarded a Leakey Foundation Research Grant in the spring of 2010 for her project entitled “The function(s) of a long-distance signal: The orangutan long call.” We recently featured a summary of her work along with her research report on our blog. Click here to
Homo sapiens to the East of Eden
María Martinón-Torres is a Leakey Foundation grantee from the University College London. She and her team were recently published in the journal Nature for their work in Southern China. She has been kind enough to provide us with her summary and thoughts on the significance of this find.
María Martinón-Torres studying the Daoxian teeth at the IVPP in Beijing
The
Surprising trunk rotational capabilities in chimpanzees
Nathan Thompson is a PhD candidate at Stony Brook University who was awarded a Leakey Foundation research grant in the spring of 2014. He and his team were published in this month’s issue of Nature Communications, and he has been kind enough to provide us a brief summary of the article.
Compared to our great ape relatives, humans possess a