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Carrie Miller is a PhD candidate from the University of Minnesota. She was awarded a Leakey Foundation Research Grant during our spring 2017 cycle for her project entitled “Does paternity certainty elicit protection and support of offspring by male gelada monkeys?”

Elaine Guevara was awarded a Leakey Foundation Research Grant during our spring 2017 cycle for her project entitled “Epigenetics of primate longevity.”

The Leakey Foundation is teaming up with the Bay Area Science Festival to explore how to separate what’s fake and what’s fact when it comes to science. 

On October 12, 2017, The Leakey Foundation in partnership with the Chicago Council of Science and Technology (C2ST) presented “Alesi: The Life, Death, and Discovery of an Ancestor” with speaker … Continued

Joel Bray is a PhD candidate from Arizona State University. He was awarded a Leakey Foundation Grant to study the role of development and early social experiences in male chimpanzee social behavior.

Kristin Sabbi was awarded a Leakey Foundation Research Grant during our spring 2016 cycle. Here she updates us on her third field season in Kibale National Park, Uganda.

We are excited to begin sharing the work of our spring 2017 grantees! Here we have Laura Abondano, who was awarded a Leakey Foundation Research Grant for her project entitled “Mating strategies of female lowland woolly monkeys in Amazonian Ecuador.”

Guest blogger Rebecca O’Neill shares her impressions of our July 12th installment of Science Speakeasy, A Giant Advantage:  Baseball in Our Bones.

Leakey Foundation grantee Erica Dunayer has provided us with a post-hurricane Maria update from Cayo Santiago, Puerto Rico. 

Rachna Reddy was awarded a Leakey Foundation research grant during our spring 2016 cycle. Here we have a short story about a few of the chimps Rachna has been following in Kibale National Park, Uganda.