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Learn about Clara Mariencheck, a PhD Candidate in the Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology at the George Washington University whose research explores primate genetics, immunogenetics, and sociality. She received a Leakey Foundation grant in 2024 for her project called “How an extra X chromosome may enhance immunity.”

Researchers find the world’s oldest figurative art in a cave in Sulawesi, Indonesia. Using a novel dating technique, they dated the painting to 51,200 years old.

The Leakey Foundation is pleased to announce the recipients of our spring 2024 Leakey Foundation Research Grants. 

The Leakey Foundation is proud to announce the 2024 Francis H. Brown African Scholars. Every year, through this scholarship fund, the foundation supports East African students and researchers working in the earth sciences or botany related to human origins. 

The Leakey Foundation is proud to announce the 2024 Baldwin Fellowship recipients. The 11 new and returning Baldwin Fellows represent eight countries, nine academic institutions, and a wide variety of scientific disciplines.

What is it like to study titi monkeys in the Amazon Rainforest? Leakey Foundation grantee David Wood says the worst part is the sweat bees.

Researchers report first evidence of ancient human occupation of giant lava tube caves in the Arabian Peninsula.

Lucy is one of the most famous fossils of all time. The discovery of this species had a major impact on the science of human origins and evolution. Why? What was that impact?

Arizona State University’s Institute of Human Origins is celebrating the 50th anniversary of Lucy’s discovery with a symposium on Saturday, April 6, 2024.

When Jane Goodall was asked how she wanted to spend her 90th birthday, the trailblazing primatologist said, “With dogs.”

Raymond Arthur Dart (1893-1988) announced, described, and named the first discovery of an Australopithecine in the February 7, 1925 issue of Nature. The now iconic specimen consisted of a partial fossilized face, jaw, and cast of the interior of the braincase of a young child from Taung, which Dart assigned to a new genus and species called Australopithecus africanus.