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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.

Meet the spring 2025 Leakey Foundation grantees. Their innovative research will shed new light on human origins, evolution, and behavior.

Allegra DePasquale is a Leakey Foundation grantee who studies how interactions between primates, fruiting plants, and other fruit-eating animals have shaped the evolution of key primate traits.

On Panama’s Jicarón island, biologists documented five male capuchin monkeys carrying at least eleven different infant howler monkeys—a behavior never before seen in wild primates.