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Looking for your next great read about evolution, behavior, or biology? Check out this list of human evolution book recommendations from The Leakey Foundation’s scientific advisors and trustees.

Who were the Denisovans, where did they live, and why are they important to the story of humanity?

New research reveals fossil footprints that record two different species of hominins walking along the same Kenyan lakeshore at the same time, roughly 1.5 million years ago.

Looking for a new podcast? Executive Director Sharal Camisa Smith recommends Origin Stories episodes on music, food, and family dynamics.

Fifty years since the discovery of Lucy, what does this iconic fossil tell us about our evolutionary story? By Evan HadinghamAuthor of Discovering Us What marked out our ancestors from … Continued

Denise Su, Arizona State University In 1974, on a survey in Hadar in the remote badlands of Ethiopia, U.S. paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson and graduate student Tom Gray found a piece … Continued

Stephen Magohe is a geologist and assistant lecturer at the University of Dar es Salaam who is pursuing his PhD at the University of Calgary. In 2024, Magohe received a … Continued

What brought the first humans to Sicily, and how did they get there? Scientists are finding new evidence along the island’s southeastern coast, where land and underwater caves hold clues … Continued

New research in Nature solves the mystery of the origins of the Stonehenge Altar Stone, an enigmatic rock at the heart of the monument.

Learn about Margaret Furtner, a Leakey Foundation grantee using new technology to explore for fossil sites in South Africa’s Cradle of Humankind.