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With support from The Leakey Foundation, researchers have developed and tested CapuchinAI, a portable field station that pairs a webcam and touchscreen with machine learning to help scientists study primate cognition in the wild.

The Leakey Foundation is proud to introduce the 2026 Leakey Foundation Baldwin Fellows. This year, 17 outstanding scholars from 10 countries received fellowships, empowering them to become future leaders in our field.

Yuting Gao is a PhD candidate at the University of Colorado Boulder whose work will help us better understand the microbes in our mouths.

The Leakey Foundation has made several updates to how we will manage applications, reviews, and resubmissions this fall cycle. These changes reflect a significant and sustained increase in application volume.

Long term studies of baboons show how females’ family bonds have long lasting benefits.

The Leakey Foundation announces the 32 recipients of its spring 2026 grants for research into human origins, evolution, behavior, and survival.

How does a body switch sperm production on for one season, then off again? Rebecca DeCamp is a PhD candidate at Rutgers University whose research explores how seasonal changes impact the reproductive cycle.

Mountain gorillas are among our closest living relatives, and they exhibit some surprisingly human-like behaviors. One notable example is that male mountain gorillas often care for and protect infants, even … Continued

A new study shows that Homo erectus populations left a small but detectable genetic legacy in modern human genomes.

Juan Olvido Perea García is taking a closer look at human eyes and asking whether the “whites” of our eyes vary in response to the sun, like our skin does.