The Survival Symposium Videos Are Now Online!
In September 2016 The Leakey Foundation brought together seven world-renowned speakers and researchers for a series of short talks focusing on evolution and the challenges of building a better, safer and more survivable future.
Introducing the Recipient of the 2016 Gordon Getty Grant: Margaret Crofoot
In December 2016 the Gordon P. Getty Grant was awarded to Margaret Crofoot for her project entitled "Dominance, social stability and the emergence of collective decisions in complex societies."
Introducing Our Fall 2016 Grantees
The Leakey Foundation held its Fall Granting Session on December 3, 2016. Our Board of Trustees unanimously approved twenty-one research grant proposals for funding this cycle.
The Grant Application Deadline Approaches!
While you get those proposals submitted, I thought I would share with you a few pointers based on some of the questions we have received.
Director’s Diary: France and Germany
When I stood in the dimly lit overhang at Abri de Cap Blanc in the Dordogne region of France and my eyes beheld the carved horse in sandstone (15,000ya) I was reminded that the capabilities to imagine and create lie deep in our species’ DNA.