BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Leakey Foundation - ECPv6.17.5//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:The Leakey Foundation X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://leakeyfoundation.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Leakey Foundation REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20250309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20251102T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20260308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20261101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20270314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20271107T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20280312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20281105T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20270314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20271107T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Denver BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20250309T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20251102T080000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20260308T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20261101T080000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20270314T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20271107T080000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260428T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260428T200000 DTSTAMP:20260421T001629Z CREATED:20260327T233019Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260421T001629Z UID:10000568-1777402800-1777406400@leakeyfoundation.org SUMMARY:Fossils\, Ecology\, and Human Evolution DESCRIPTION:Tusher African HallCalifornia Academy of Sciences \n\n\n\n$25 General admission$20 Cal Academy and Leakey Foundation membersAcademy members and donors\, please log in after adding tickets to your cart to receive your discount. \n\n\n\n\nGet your Tickets\n\n\n\n\nIn the remote Turkana Basin in northern Kenya\, bone fragments and fossil footprints preserve stories stretching back millions of years. Dr. Kay Behrensmeyer brings these stories to life\, showing how scientists piece together ancient ecological settings and animal behavior from what remains after death. \n\n\n\nHer work reveals how climate\, landscape\, and living communities affect both species adaptations and the fate of their remains. Through these deep-time insights\, we’ll explore how the forces that shaped the past influence our world today and into the future. \n\n\n\nAbout Kay Behrensmeyer\n\n\n\nKay Behrensmeyer\, Curator\, Department of Paleobiology\, National Museum of Natural History\, Smithsonian Institution.\n\n\n\nAnna K. (“Kay”) Behrensmeyer is a Leakey Foundation grantee and recipient of the 2024 Gordon P. Getty Award. She has worked in the Department of Paleobiology at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History since 1981; she has been a Senior Scientist there since 2009. She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011\, a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2020\, and a Member of the American Philosophical Society in 2021. \n\n\n\nBehrensmeyer is a ‘big-picture’ scientist with an over-arching interest in the evolution of terrestrial ecosystems—which in lay terms means understanding how animals interacted with their environment\, and with each other\, in deep time. \n\n\n\nBehrensmeyer has undertaken fieldwork at various paleontological sites in the East African Rift Valley System\, but her longest and best-known involvement is with research on the east side of Lake Turkana where she discovered what\, at the time\, was the earliest evidence for the manufacture of stone tools by early hominins. \n\n\n\nSponsors\n\n\n\nThis lecture is presented in partnership with the California Academy of Sciences. \n\n\n\nThis lecture is made possible by the generous support of the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation\, Camilla and George Smith\, and the Joan and Arnold Travis Education Fund. \n\n\n\nAcademy members and donors\, please log in after adding tickets to your cart to receive your discount. URL:https://leakeyfoundation.org/event/fossils-ecology-and-human-evolution/ LOCATION:California Academy of Sciences\, 55 Music Concourse Dr 94118\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94118\, United States CATEGORIES:Speaker Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://leakeyfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/nl_2661x1774_sayswho_african-hall-panel-dsc08635_nr_cas_230630.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260827T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260827T120000 DTSTAMP:20260819T191219Z CREATED:20260818T201404Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260819T191219Z UID:10000572-1787824800-1787832000@leakeyfoundation.org SUMMARY:Workshop: Creative Approaches to Education and Community Engagement DESCRIPTION:Register now for free\n\n\n\n\nBiological anthropology builds thinking skills\, evidence evaluation\, careful observation\, and claims analysis that extend well beyond the discipline. Join us for a free workshop with three short talks exploring how these tools can be brought into the classroom: centering community voices in primate conservation education\, evaluating evolutionary health claims\, and separating observation from interpretation using primate communication video. \n\n\n\nThis workshop is presented in collaboration with the Education Committee of the American Association of Biological Anthropologists. \n\n\n\nWhat to expect\n\n\n\nThis online workshop consists of three 20-minute presentations\, each followed by live audience Q&A\, and a closing group discussion. Attendees join off-camera during presentations\, then turn on cameras or mics for Q&A and the final discussion to ask questions directly. \n\n\n\nWho is this for? \n\n\n\nDesigned for college-level biological anthropology instructors\, with ideas and approaches useful to anyone involved in biological anthropology education or outreach. \n\n\n\nPresenters\n\n\n\nFlorence Aghomo\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFlorence Aghomo is from Cameroon and is a Leakey Foundation Baldwin Fellow and PhD candidate at the Interdepartmental Doctoral Program in Anthropological Sciences (IDPAS) at Stony Brook University. Since June 2019\, she has served as coordinator of the Red Colobus Conservation Network project under IUCN/SSC/PSG\, Re:wild\, and the African Primatological Society. Driven by her passion for primate well-being and conservation\, she began working with primates in Cameroon in 2011 and helped found the Cameroon Primatological Society in 2020; she now serves as its President. With a global vision\, she established an Environmental and Language Center (ENLACE) in Ranomafana\, Madagascar\, under the Flor’ Foundation to promote education and conservation. The center operates with support from The Safina Center. \n\n\n\nFrances Forrest\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Frances Forrest is a Leakey Foundation grantee and an Assistant Professor of Biological Anthropology at Fairfield University. Her research focuses on the evolution of meat-eating and the role that animal resources played in shaping early human behavior and ecology. She is particularly interested in how environmental conditions influenced access to these resources and how early humans responded to changing landscapes. Her work draws on fossil and archaeological evidence from East Africa. In her teaching\, she emphasizes science as a process of evaluating evidence rather than a fixed body of facts\, using active learning to help students develop conclusions from data and apply those analytical skills beyond anthropology. \n\n\n\nJoe Califf\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Joe Califf is a Clinical Associate Professor in New York University’s Expository Writing Program. He teaches courses (e.g.\, Science & Society\, Thinking Across the University\, The Neuroscience of Being Human) that investigate how science and technology are used to characterize\, evaluate\, influence\, and politicize human values—such as particular notions of love\, intelligence\, or truth—and how varied forms of media represent\, perpetuate\, simplify\, and (sometimes) complicate these perspectives. His academic interests range from behavioral endocrinology and human evolution to science education and pedagogy. He has also taught and conducted research at Princeton University\, the American Museum of Natural History\, Hunter College\, and the Texas Biomedical Research Institute. \n\n\n\n\nRegister now for free\n\n\n\n\nSchedule and Session Details\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Welcome & Introductions (5 min) \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Session 1: Primates With People: Community-Centered Education for Local Conservation (20 min presentation\, 10 min Q&A) \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nAfrican primates\, including the Critically Endangered Preuss’s red colobus (Piliocolobus preussi)\, face increasing threats from illegal hunting for bushmeat and habitat loss. Addressing these challenges requires more than in situ protection; it depends on informed and engaged local communities. This presentation will highlight a community-centered approach to primate conservation through education and outreach. I will showcase educational materials developed for the Red Colobus Conservation Network and adapted to local contexts\, as well as the Youth Wildlife Workshops we regularly conduct in Cameroon to empower children and young adults as conservation advocates. This red colobus initiative aims to foster knowledge\, awareness\, and long-term stewardship of primates and their habitats. \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Session 2: A Biological Anthropology Approach to Assessing Health Claims (20 min presentation\, 10 min Q&A) \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nEvolutionary explanations are increasingly used to support claims about human health\, diet\, and behavior\, but these claims often extend beyond the available evidence. This lesson presents a way for students to evaluate those claims rather than simply accept them because they sound scientific. It focuses on the difference between using evolutionary ideas in an argument and showing that the argument is actually supported. The lesson is interactive and gives students a clear way to think more carefully about how health claims are presented\, how conclusions are justified\, and whether the available information is sufficient to support them. \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Session 3: Teaching to De-automate (20 min presentation\, 10 min Q&A) \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nEveryday exchanges are typically conducted through statements. Whether conversing with a friend\, scrolling through social media\, or listening to an “expert\,” information is usually communicated as a series of claims (for example\, this sentence and the one preceding it!). In this session\, I will present an approach that requires students to slow down\, notice details\, and articulate their observations in the form of evidence and questions rather than claims and assertions. Using a one-minute primate communication video as their object of analysis\, participants practice describing evidence\, moving from reactions to observations to questions to “against-the-grain” interpretations\, thus developing transferable skills for evaluating problems beyond biological anthropology. \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Group Discussion (20 min) \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nOpen conversation connecting themes across all three talks. \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Closing Remarks (5 min) \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\nFAQ\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Who is this workshop for? \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nThis workshop is designed primarily for college-level biological anthropology instructors. It is also relevant to graduate students\, teaching assistants\, and anyone involved in biological anthropology education\, science communication\, or public outreach. \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n What will the workshop cover? \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nThe three speakers will share creative approaches to biological anthropology education and engagement\, including community-centered primate conservation education\, evaluating evolutionary health claims\, and using primate communication to teach observation and interpretation. \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n What is the format? \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nThe workshop is live on Zoom and lasts two hours. It includes three 20-minute presentations\, Q&A after each presentation\, and a closing group discussion connecting ideas across the sessions. \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Is this a lecture or an interactive workshop? \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nBoth. The workshop combines short presentations with opportunities to ask questions\, discuss teaching approaches\, and exchange ideas with the speakers and other participants. \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Will I come away with ideas I can use in my teaching? \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nYes. Each session focuses on an approach\, activity\, or framework that can be adapted for college-level teaching or other educational settings. \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\nRegister now for free URL:https://leakeyfoundation.org/event/creative-approaches-to-education-and-community-engagement/ CATEGORIES:Virtual,Webinar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://leakeyfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Workshop.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261007T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261007T190000 DTSTAMP:20260909T172328Z CREATED:20260909T172327Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260909T172328Z UID:10000573-1791396000-1791399600@leakeyfoundation.org SUMMARY:Cambridge Book Talk - Fed Up: What Evolution Reveals about Food\, Diet\, Health\, and Eating Well DESCRIPTION:Harvard Science Center\, Cambridge\, MAFree admission (or bundle with a book) \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow many times a day do you ask the question\, “What should I eat?” Are you overwhelmed by the thousands of factory-made foods supermarkets sell? Or the abundance of diets (paleo\, Mediterranean\, low-fat\, low-carb\, low-calorie\, intermittent fasting\, vegan\, vegetarian\, carnivore) claimed to optimize your health and manage your weight?  \n\n\n\nIn this talk and his new book\, Fed Up\, best-selling author and Harvard professor Daniel Lieberman tackles this confusion. Drawing on evolutionary biology\, anthropology\, physiology\, and medical science\, he explores how our ancestors never evolved to choose their food to lose weight or live to 100. Instead\, we evolved to eat almost anything in order to survive.  \n\n\n\nBy telling the fascinating story of diets from seven million years ago to the present and using myth-busting science to evaluate today’s most popular diets\, Lieberman explains what everyone needs to know to make wiser\, kinder choices about what to eat. This talk will help you understand why no diet is flawless\, though some are better than others. \n\n\n\n\nRegister now\n\n\n\n\nHarvard Book Store\, the Harvard University Division of Science\, the Harvard Library\, the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture\, the Peabody Museum at Harvard\, and the Leakey Foundation welcome Daniel E. Lieberman—paleoanthropologist at Harvard University\, where he is the Edwin M. Lerner II Professor of Biological Sciences and former chair of the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology—for a discussion of his new book\, Fed Up: What Evolution Reveals About Food\, Diet\, Health\, and Eating Well. The presentation will take place in Hall D of the Harvard Science Center\, located at 1 Oxford Street\, Cambridge. \n\n\n\nBook sales and signing\n\n\n\nRSVP for free to this event or choose the “Book-Included” ticket to reserve a copy of Fed Up and pick it up at the event. Following the presentation will be a book signing. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the speaker\n\n\n\nDaniel Lieberman is the Edwin M Lerner II Professor of Biological Science\, founding Chair of Harvard’s Department of Human Evolutionary Biology\, and a member of The Leakey Foundation’s Scientific Executive Committee. Educated at Harvard and Cambridge Universities\, he studies and teaches how and why the human body is the way it is\, and the relevance of human evolution to contemporary health. He is best known for his research on the evolution and biology of long-distance running and the evolution of the highly unusual human head. At Harvard\, he teaches a variety of courses on human evolution\, anatomy\, physiology\, and health. \n\n\n\nHe has published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers and four books: Fed Up:  What Evolution Reveals about Food\, Diet\, Health\, and Eating Well (Knopf\, 2026)\, Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do is Healthy and Rewarding (Pantheon\, 2021)\, The Story of the Human Body: Evolution\, Health and Disease (Pantheon\, 2013)\, and The Evolution of the Human Head (Harvard University Press\, 2011). He is also an avid runner and loves to cook. \n\n\n\nPartners and sponsors\n\n\n\nThe Leakey Foundation’s participation in this program is generously sponsored by the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation\, Camilla and George Smith\, and the Joan and Arnold Travis Education Fund. URL:https://leakeyfoundation.org/event/fed-up-cambridge-2026/ LOCATION:Harvard Science Center\, 1 Oxford Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Speaker Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://leakeyfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Fed-up-featured-image-cover.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20261022T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20261022T203000 DTSTAMP:20260908T233250Z CREATED:20260818T202158Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260908T233250Z UID:10000570-1792695600-1792701000@leakeyfoundation.org SUMMARY:Salt Lake City Book Talk - Fed Up: What Evolution Reveals about Food\, Diet\, Health\, and Eating Well DESCRIPTION:Natural History Museum of UtahFree admission \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow many times a day do you ask the question\, “What should I eat?” Are you overwhelmed by the thousands of factory-made foods supermarkets sell? Or the abundance of diets (paleo\, Mediterranean\, low-fat\, low-carb\, low-calorie\, intermittent fasting\, vegan\, vegetarian\, carnivore) claimed to optimize your health and manage your weight?  \n\n\n\nIn this talk and his new book\, Fed Up\, best-selling author and Harvard professor Daniel Lieberman tackles this confusion. Drawing on evolutionary biology\, anthropology\, physiology\, and medical science\, he explores how our ancestors never evolved to choose their food to lose weight or live to 100. Instead\, we evolved to eat almost anything in order to survive.  \n\n\n\nBy telling the fascinating story of diets from seven million years ago to the present and using myth-busting science to evaluate today’s most popular diets\, Lieberman explains what everyone needs to know to make wiser\, kinder choices about what to eat. This talk will help you understand why no diet is flawless\, though some are better than others. \n\n\n\n\nRegister now\n\n\n\n\nBook sales and signing\n\n\n\nCopies of Daniel Lieberman’s new book\, Fed Up:  What Evolution Reveals about Food\, Diet\, Health\, and Eating Well\, will be available for sale at the event. A book signing will take place following the program. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the speaker\n\n\n\nDaniel Lieberman is the Edwin M Lerner II Professor of Biological Science\, founding Chair of Harvard’s Department of Human Evolutionary Biology\, and a member of The Leakey Foundation’s Scientific Executive Committee. Educated at Harvard and Cambridge Universities\, he studies and teaches how and why the human body is the way it is\, and the relevance of human evolution to contemporary health. He is best known for his research on the evolution and biology of long-distance running and the evolution of the highly unusual human head. At Harvard\, he teaches a variety of courses on human evolution\, anatomy\, physiology\, and health. \n\n\n\nHe has published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers and four books: Fed Up:  What Evolution Reveals about Food\, Diet\, Health\, and Eating Well (Knopf\, 2026)\, Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do is Healthy and Rewarding (Pantheon\, 2021)\, The Story of the Human Body: Evolution\, Health and Disease (Pantheon\, 2013)\, and The Evolution of the Human Head (Harvard University Press\, 2011). He is also an avid runner and loves to cook. \n\n\n\nPartners and sponsors\n\n\n\nPresented by The Leakey Foundation and the Natural History Museum of Utah. This program is generously sponsored by the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation\, Camilla and George Smith\, and the Joan and Arnold Travis Education Fund. URL:https://leakeyfoundation.org/event/fed-up-salt-lake-city-2026/ LOCATION:Natural History Museum of Utah\, 301 Wakara Way\, Salt Lake City\, Utah\, 84108 CATEGORIES:Speaker Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://leakeyfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Fed-up-featured-image-cover.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261023T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261023T193000 DTSTAMP:20260909T223034Z CREATED:20260810T231438Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260909T223034Z UID:10000569-1792780200-1792783800@leakeyfoundation.org SUMMARY:Houston Book Talk - Fed Up: What Evolution Reveals about Food\, Diet\, Health\, and Eating Well DESCRIPTION:Houston Museum of Natural ScienceTickets on sale soon! $12 for Leakey Foundation supporters and museum members$18 General Admission \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow many times a day do you ask the question\, “What should I eat?” Are you overwhelmed by the thousands of factory-made foods supermarkets sell? Or the abundance of diets (paleo\, Mediterranean\, low-fat\, low-carb\, low-calorie\, intermittent fasting\, vegan\, vegetarian\, carnivore) claimed to optimize your health and manage your weight?  \n\n\n\nIn this talk and his new book\, Fed Up\, best-selling author and Harvard professor Daniel Lieberman tackles this confusion. Drawing on evolutionary biology\, anthropology\, physiology\, and medical science\, he explores how our ancestors never evolved to choose their food to lose weight or live to 100. Instead\, we evolved to eat almost anything in order to survive.  \n\n\n\nBy telling the fascinating story of diets from seven million years ago to the present and using myth-busting science to evaluate today’s most popular diets\, Lieberman explains what everyone needs to know to make wiser\, kinder choices about what to eat. This talk will help you understand why no diet is flawless\, though some are better than others. \n\n\n\nBook sales and signing\n\n\n\nCopies of Daniel Lieberman’s new book\, Fed Up:  What Evolution Reveals about Food\, Diet\, Health\, and Eating Well\, will be available for sale at the event. A book signing will take place following the program. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the speaker\n\n\n\nDaniel Lieberman is the Edwin M Lerner II Professor of Biological Science\, founding Chair of Harvard’s Department of Human Evolutionary Biology\, and a member of The Leakey Foundation’s Scientific Executive Committee. Educated at Harvard and Cambridge Universities\, he studies and teaches how and why the human body is the way it is\, and the relevance of human evolution to contemporary health. He is best known for his research on the evolution and biology of long-distance running (including barefoot running) and the evolution of the highly unusual human head. At Harvard\, he teaches a variety of courses on human evolution\, anatomy\, physiology\, and health. \n\n\n\nHe has published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers and four books: Fed Up:  What Evolution Reveals about Food\, Diet\, Health\, and Eating Well (Knopf\, 2026)\, Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do is Healthy and Rewarding (Pantheon\, 2021)\, The Story of the Human Body: Evolution\, Health and Disease (Pantheon\, 2013)\, and The Evolution of the Human Head (Harvard University Press\, 2011). He is also an avid runner and loves to cook. \n\n\n\nPartners and sponsors\n\n\n\nPresented by The Leakey Foundation and the Houston Museum of Natural Science. This program is generously sponsored by the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation\, Camilla and George Smith\, and the Joan and Arnold Travis Education Fund. URL:https://leakeyfoundation.org/event/fed-up-houston-2026/ LOCATION:The Houston Museum of Natural Science\, 5555 Hermann Park Drive\, Houston\, TX\, 77030\, United States CATEGORIES:Speaker Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://leakeyfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Fed-up-featured-image-cover.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261114T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261114T150000 DTSTAMP:20260818T221412Z CREATED:20260818T221341Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260818T221412Z UID:10000571-1794664800-1794668400@leakeyfoundation.org SUMMARY:Chicago Book Talk - Fed Up: What Evolution Reveals about Food\, Diet\, Health\, and Eating Well DESCRIPTION:Field Museum\, ChicagoRegistration opens soon!Free admission \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow many times a day do you ask the question\, “What should I eat?” Are you overwhelmed by the thousands of factory-made foods supermarkets sell? Or the abundance of diets (paleo\, Mediterranean\, low-fat\, low-carb\, low-calorie\, intermittent fasting\, vegan\, vegetarian\, carnivore) claimed to optimize your health and manage your weight?  \n\n\n\nIn this talk and his new book\, Fed Up\, best-selling author and Harvard professor Daniel Lieberman tackles this confusion. Drawing on evolutionary biology\, anthropology\, physiology\, and medical science\, he explores how our ancestors never evolved to choose their food to lose weight or live to 100. Instead\, we evolved to eat almost anything in order to survive.  \n\n\n\nBy telling the fascinating story of diets from seven million years ago to the present and using myth-busting science to evaluate today’s most popular diets\, Lieberman explains what everyone needs to know to make wiser\, kinder choices about what to eat. This talk will help you understand why no diet is flawless\, though some are better than others. \n\n\n\nBook sales and signing\n\n\n\nCopies of Daniel Lieberman’s new book\, Fed Up:  What Evolution Reveals about Food\, Diet\, Health\, and Eating Well\, will be available for sale at the event. A book signing will take place following the program. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the speaker\n\n\n\nDaniel Lieberman is the Edwin M Lerner II Professor of Biological Science\, founding Chair of Harvard’s Department of Human Evolutionary Biology\, and a member of The Leakey Foundation’s Scientific Executive Committee. Educated at Harvard and Cambridge Universities\, he studies and teaches how and why the human body is the way it is\, and the relevance of human evolution to contemporary health. He is best known for his research on the evolution and biology of long-distance running (including barefoot running) and the evolution of the highly unusual human head. At Harvard\, he teaches a variety of courses on human evolution\, anatomy\, physiology\, and health. \n\n\n\nHe has published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers and four books: Fed Up:  What Evolution Reveals about Food\, Diet\, Health\, and Eating Well (Knopf\, 2026)\, Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do is Healthy and Rewarding (Pantheon\, 2021)\, The Story of the Human Body: Evolution\, Health and Disease (Pantheon\, 2013)\, and The Evolution of the Human Head (Harvard University Press\, 2011). He is also an avid runner and loves to cook. \n\n\n\nPartners and sponsors\n\n\n\nPresented by The Leakey Foundation\, Field Museum\, and Chicago Council on Science and Technology. This program is generously sponsored by the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation\, Camilla and George Smith\, and the Joan and Arnold Travis Education Fund. URL:https://leakeyfoundation.org/event/fed-up-chicago-2026/ LOCATION:Field Museum\, 1400 S DuSable Lake Shore Dr.\, Chicago\, Illinois\, 60605\, United States CATEGORIES:Speaker Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://leakeyfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Fed-up-featured-image-cover.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270411T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270422T235959 DTSTAMP:20260910T235237Z CREATED:20260910T000251Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260910T235237Z UID:10000574-1807401600-1808438399@leakeyfoundation.org SUMMARY:Origins: Italy DESCRIPTION:explore the itinerary and reserve your space (Use password Italy27 to access)\n\n\n\n\nAn extraordinary journey through Italy\n\n\n\nJoin The Leakey Foundation for an unforgettable tour of Italy from April 11-22\, 2027. This exclusive small-group tour will take you from the vibrant streets of Palermo across Sicily\, Campania\, and Lazio to the Eternal City of Rome. This carefully curated itinerary explores prehistoric caves\, magnificent archaeological sites\, and landscapes that have shaped human history for hundreds of thousands of years. \n\n\n\nAccompanied throughout by leading archaeologists and scholars\, you’ll enjoy exclusive\, behind-the-scenes access to some of the Mediterranean’s most significant prehistoric sites\, including Paleolithic cave art sites and the Neanderthal caves of the Circeo Promontory. \n\n\n\nThe itinerary also features stops at UNESCO World Heritage Sites\, Villa Romana del Casale and the Valley of the Temples\, as well as a visit to the historic Vesuvius Observatory\, where the group will be welcomed by volcanologist Dr. Mauro Di Vito. \n\n\n\nHow to reserve your space\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis tour is designed by Hautes Côtes\, a boutique\, experience-focused travel company\, for an intimate group of up to 16 travelers. A few spaces are still available. \n\n\n\nTo join the tour\, you must first become a Leakey Foundation Fellow by giving at the Fellows level or higher. Fellows are dedicated supporters who invest in the science of human origins because they know how understanding our shared past can change the world. Your gift of $1\,000 or $84 per month supports our mission and makes you eligible to join the Fellows Tour.  \n\n\n\nExplore the itinerary and reserve your space at https://www.hautescotes.com/trip/leakey-italy (use password Italy27) \n\n\n\n\nHighlights include\n\n\n\n\nExclusive access to Italy’s most significant prehistoric caves\n\n\n\nExperience Agrigento’s spectacular UNESCO-listed Valley of the Temples at sunset\n\n\n\nExplore the remains of an ancient Phoenician settlement\n\n\n\nAuthentic cultural and gastronomic experiences\n\n\n\nTalks from Leakey grantees and scientists throughout the program\n\n\n\n\nPrice\n\n\n\nEUR 15\,200 per person based on a double room sharing \n\n\n\nSingle supplement EUR 2\,245 \n\n\n\nInclusions: \n\n\n\n\n11 nights’ accommodation in a 4-star hotel or equivalent standard\n\n\n\n9 lunches with wine\, beer\, and non-alcoholic beverages\n\n\n\n9 dinners with wine\, beer\, and non-alcoholic beverages\n\n\n\nAll transportation in air-conditioned vehicles throughout the program\n\n\n\nInternal flight from Catania to Naples\n\n\n\nLuggage transfers between hotels as per the program\n\n\n\nArrival and departure transfers from and to the airport\n\n\n\nAll guided tours and entries to museum and cultural heritage sites\n\n\n\nHonoraria for specialists receiving us for private visits\n\n\n\nHonoraria and travel for expert guides\n\n\n\nTrip led by one native Italian Hautes Côtes tour operator\n\n\n\nTrip accompanied by the Leakey Foundation’s Executive Director\n\n\n\nAudio devices for guided tours\n\n\n\nA printed trip handbook with daily program and practical information\n\n\n\nAll tips for restaurant\, transportation\, and hotel staff\n\n\n\nA tax-deductible donation to The Leakey Foundation of $450\n\n\n\n\nExclusions: \n\n\n\n\nInternational flights\n\n\n\nTravel insurance (recommended)\n\n\n\nMedical insurance (required)\n\n\n\nItems of a personal nature (laundry\, spa)\n\n\n\nMeals and drinks taken outside of the group program\n\n\n\n\nA note from Hautes Côtes: This trip program is subject to change. Small changes may also be necessary due to weather and the availability of experts and researchers. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nBecome a fellow\n\n\n\n\n\nexplore the itinerary and reserve your space (Use password Italy27 to access) URL:https://leakeyfoundation.org/event/origins-italy-2027/ CATEGORIES:Travel ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/avif:https://leakeyfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/G9PCLQdzBOYktI0C_mauro-grazzi-E-kLageQx4g-unsplash-scaled-e1788998181871.avif END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR