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Claire Kirchhoff, a Leakey Foundation grantee and professor at Marquette University, studies baboon skeletons from Gombe National Park to explore how bones reflect behavior, health, and social life.

How much time did our ancestors spend in trees? A new study on savannah-living chimpanzees could help answer questions about the origins of upright walking.

Babalola Jacobs is a Leakey Foundation Baldwin Fellow and PhD student from Nigeria who studies how early humans adapted to climate change in West Africa.

Leakey Foundation grantee Madeleine Kelly reconstructs early African ecosystems and explores how they shaped human evolution.

Jacqueline Garnett is a PhD candidate at Washington University in St. Louis whose research asks what the impact of previous evolution is on future evolutionary potential. Her Leakey-funded project is focused on the role of diet in evolution.

Raquel Hernando, a postdoctoral researcher at CENIEH and Leakey Foundation grantee, reconstructs the diets of fossil primates to understand how they adapted to environmental change.

Imagine stepping into a time machine and traveling back millions of years to an era when ancient apes and primates roamed the Earth. Deepak Choudhary’s research seeks to do just that.

Primatologist Tobias Deschner is exploring whether wild chimpanzees can invent nut-cracking behavior on their own or if it must be learned from others.

Meet the spring 2025 Francis H. Brown African Scholars. This prestigious award recognizes outstanding East African scientists studying earth sciences or botany relevant to human origins.

Meet the 2025 Baldwin Fellows! This year, 14 scholars from 11 countries have received fellowships, empowering them to become future leaders.