Video: The Secret Lives of Female Chimpanzees
On August 17, The Leakey Foundation in partnership with the Chicago Council of Science and Technology (C2ST) presented “The Secret Lives of Female Chimpanzees” with guest speaker Melissa Emery Thompson.
The Secret Lives of Female Chimpanzees
Come learn about the fascinating lives of female chimpanzees with Chicago Council on Science and Technology (C2ST) and The Leakey Foundation.
Female apes are often overshadowed by their larger, more boisterous male counterparts. The subtlety of social behavior in female chimpanzees belies a complex set of strategies that allow them to navigate the costs and benefits of group life.
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Video: Laurie Santos – The Evolution of Irrationality
If you missed Laurie Santos’ SciCafe presentation at the American Museum of Natural History, we have a video of her presentation.
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The ancestral history of humans and primates is extensive, but can it explain even our financial choices? New experiments in “monkeynomics” demonstrate that monkeys make some of the same silly financial choices we do — but sometimes<br>
Human Ecological Dominance
Rob Blumenschine’s Leakey Speaker Series talk, “Olduvai Gorge and the Origin of Human Ecological Dominance,” is coming up on April 22, 2015 at the California Academy of Sciences. Rob will discuss how humans have become one of the most adaptable and ecologically dominant species through intelligence and technology. What makes Rob so qualified to discuss this topic?
Rob has worked<br>
Guest Post: Why walk on two legs?
By Jeremy DeSilva of Boston University.
Jeremy will discuss the question “Why walk on two legs?” along with Brian Richmond during a SciCafe at the American Museum of Natural History on April 1, 2015. This article is an excellent introduction to the pros and cons of bipedalism. Humans are weird. We are mammals, yet we have very little body hair.<br>