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Deadline to Register for Tour of France Approaches!

For many years The Leakey Foundation has been leading tours to some of the most fascinating and significant archaeological and anthropological sites in the world, and 2016 will be no different! We are offering Leakey Foundation Fellows the opportunity to take a journey to France.

Animated Life: Mary Leakey

This wonderful animated documentary by Flora Lichtman and Sharon Shattuck remembers the life and work of Mary Leakey.

Welcome to Our New Website!

On behalf of the staff and trustees of The Leakey Foundation, we would like to welcome you to our new website, a new tool in fulfilling our mission!

Grantee Spotlight: Shannon McFarlin

  Shannon McFarlin Earlier this fall The Leakey Foundation’s board of trustees, staff and friends had the pleasure of visiting the Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology (CASHP) at The George Washington University. CASHP is a multidisciplinary research center dedicated to the study of human origins, and lucky for us, students and faculty of CASHP were kind enough

Origin Stories Episode 06: Being a Nice Animal

For our sixth episode we have the first in a collection of stories looking at human behavior and how it’s been shaped by evolution.  Dorothy Cheney and Robert Seyfarth share their research on the baboon mind. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/230384817″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /] Dorothy Cheney and Robert Seyfarth study the communication and social behavior of wild non-human primates. They received

I [name], of [city, state ZIP], bequeath the sum of $[ ] or [ ] percent of my estate to L.S.B. Leakey Foundation for Research Related to Man’s Origins, Behavior & Survival, (dba The Leakey Foundation), a nonprofit organization with a business address of 1003B O’Reilly Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94129 and a tax identification number 95-2536475 for its unrestricted use and purpose.

If you have questions, please contact Sharal Camisa Smith sharal at leakeyfoundation.org. 

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