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Jane Goodall on Instinct

Video

In this charming animated interview from the PBS Series Blank on Blank, Jane Goodall discusses her early dreams of studying animals in the wild, and how meeting Louis Leakey in Kenya made it … Continued

Grantee Spotlight: Elizabeth Moffett

Grantee Spotlight

We are pleased to introduce Elizabeth Moffett, PhD candidate from University of Missouri, who was awarded a Leakey Foundation research grant in December 2014 for her project entitled “Birth and its … Continued

Guest Post: Why walk on two legs?

Guest Post | Speaker Series

By Jeremy DeSilva of Boston University. Jeremy will discuss the question “Why walk on two legs?” along with Brian Richmond during a SciCafe at the American Museum of Natural History on April … Continued

Grantee Spotlight: Samantha Porter

Grantee Spotlight

Samantha Porter in the lithics lab at the University of Minnesota The next grantee from our fall 2014 granting cycle is Samantha Porter. She is a PhD candidate from the University of Minnesota, … Continued

Survival of the fleetest, smartest, or fattest?

Speaker Series | Video

Our understanding of human evolution has grown exponentially since Darwin’s time. This week marks the 206th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, so we’re sharing a Darwin-related Leakey Foundation lecture from our archives. … Continued

Grantee Spotlight: Maura Tyrrell

Grantee Spotlight

The next fall 2014 grantee we would like to introduce to you is Maura Tyrrell. She is a PhD candidate from the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, and her dissertation … Continued

Cranium discovery sheds light on early human migration

In the News

Leakey Foundation grantees Israel Hershkovitz and Ofer Marder led an international team of archaeologists who discovered a 55,000 year old cranium in Manot Cave in Israel. Their discovery was described last week in … Continued

Grantee Spotlight: Naomi Cleghorn

Grantee Spotlight

Naomi Cleghorn, University of Texas at Arlington, was awarded a Leakey Foundation research grant in the fall of 2014 for her project entitled “Investigating a rare Early Later Stone Age site … Continued

Grantee Spotlight: Shelby S. Putt

Grantee Spotlight

We are happy to introduce another one of our fall 2014 grantees, Shelby S. Putt, PhD candidate from the University of Iowa. Her dissertation project is entitled “Investigating the co-evolution of … Continued

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