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Recent and Past Grantees

Curious about The Leakey Foundation’s funded research projects and scholarship recipients? Search our grants database to learn more about the human origins research, scholarships, and emergency grants made possible by our generous supporters.

Although we have been awarding grants since 1968, this searchable database only goes back to 2012, giving you more than a decade of information. You can search by program, recipient PhD status, and keywords such as topics, species, and countries. You can also search for specific dates and time periods between 2012 and today!

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Jeffrey Spear, New York University

Research Grants (May 2020)

Integration and homoplasy in the forelimb of suspensory primates

Jessica Thompson, Yale University

Research Grants (May 2020)

Late Pleistocene environments and hunter-gatherer adaptations in the Kasitu Valley of Malawi

John Kingston, University of Michigan

Research Grants (May 2020)

Beyond the “mosaic paradigm”: Characterizing habitat heterogeneity in hominin evolution

Jonathan Reeves, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Research Grants (May 2020)

Detecting signatures of social information transfer in the Early Pleistocene: A least effort approach

Julia Arenson, Research Foundation, CUNY

Research Grants (May 2020)

Hominin phylogenetic methodology: A comparative test using colobine evolutionary history

Lais Pacheco, University of Calgary

Research Grants (May 2020)

The potential use of chemical communication in black-handed spider monkey

Lucinda Backwell, University of the Witwatersrand

Research Grants (May 2020)

Border Cave: Cradle of early modern humans in South Africa

Margaret Corley, Yale University

Research Grants (May 2020)

Hormonal correlates of pair-bonding and biparental care in owl monkeys

Mariam Bundala, University of Calgary

Baldwin Fellowship (May 2020)

Second Year Baldwin Support

Mariam Bundala, University of Calgary

Research Grants (May 2020)

Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the Manyara Beds (Tanzania) using phytolith analysis

I [name], of [city, state ZIP], bequeath the sum of $[ ] or [ ] percent of my estate to L.S.B. Leakey Foundation for Research Related to Man’s Origins, Behavior & Survival, (dba The Leakey Foundation), a nonprofit organization with a business address of 1003B O’Reilly Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94129 and a tax identification number 95-2536475 for its unrestricted use and purpose.

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