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The Joan Cogswell Donner Field School Scholarship provides grants to help students access the hands-on field science training they need to start their careers. This year, we are pleased to award scholarships to six students attending Human Origins Migration and Evolution Research (HOMER) project field schools in South Africa and Malawi.

We are proud to introduce the four recipients of the spring 2023 Francis H. Brown African Scholarship.

We are pleased to announce the 24 recipients of our spring 2023 Leakey Foundation Research Grants. These outstanding scientists are leading groundbreaking studies that will expand our understanding of humanity.

The Leakey Foundation is proud to announce the 2023 Baldwin Fellowship recipients. This prestigious program builds the future of human origins science by investing in outstanding scholars and helping them become leaders in their home countries.

Explore the fascinating tale of the Hobbit, an unexpected fossil find that shook the world’s understanding of human evolution. Join Leakey Foundation grantee Matt Tocheri as he shares how this tiny hominin revolutionized the human story and transformed his life. 

On April 19, Netflix will release Chimp Empire, a four-part docuseries that follows the fascinating lives of the Ngogo chimpanzees as they raise their young, navigate complex social dynamics, and attempt to climb to the top of the hierarchy.

New Leakey Foundation-supported research pushes back the oldest evidence of grassy woodlands by 10 million years and suggests that the earliest apes evolved upright stature for leaves, not fruit.

This month, Origin Stories podcast explores the mysterious tale of the largest primate that ever lived. Gigantopithecus blacki is an extinct relative of orangutans that lived in Southeast Asia and stood around 10 feet tall.

Sharal Camisa Smith is celebrating 19 years with The Leakey Foundation by matching 50 first-time donors who give $19 before February 28!

Two Leakey Foundation grantees tell the story of their discovery of some of the oldest-known stone tools used to butcher large animals.