Neandertal Fire Technology
Carolina Mallol has been awarded three Leakey Foundation research grants for her project entitled “Neandertal fire technology.” Currently she is beginning the field season for her third grant awarded in our spring 2015 cycle, and so we thought we would post the final report from her 2012 grant. This is an excerpt from the report followed by a link to
From Our Grants Department: The July 15th Deadline for Our Fall Cycle Approaches!
by H. Gregory
The Leakey Foundation office in the Presidio of San Francisco
While many of you are busy putting the final touches on your grant application for our fall 2015 cycle, I thought I would post some information you may find handy.
For those of you who have not met the The Leakey Foundation grants department staff, Paddy Moore
Grantee Spotlight: Kelsey Ellis
Kelsey Ellis is a PhD candidate at the University of Texas at Austin. During our spring 2015 cycle she was awarded a Leakey Foundation research grant for her project entitled “Grouping dynamics of woolly monkeys (Lagothrix poeppigii) in Amazonian Ecuador.”
Kelsey Ellis
Multilevel societies are recognized as some of the most complex social systems found in nature and have been
Grantee Spotlight: Gabriele Schino
Gabriele Schino was awarded a Leakey Foundation research grant during our fall 2014 cycle for his project entitled “The emotional basis of primate reciprocity.” He and his collaborator Elsa Addessi are from the Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, National Research Council in Rome, Italy.
Gabriele Schino and Elsa Addessi
Reciprocal cooperation is a prominent characteristic of human behavior, but
Grantee Spotlight: Halszka Glowacka
Halszka Glowacka is a PhD candidate at Arizona State University. She was awarded a grant during our spring 2015 cycle for her project entitled “Biomechanical constraints on molar emergence in primates.” Halszka Glowacka in Hadar, Ethiopia
Human life history is unique among living primates. Humans grow slowly and have long lifespans coupled with short inter-birth intervals, resulting in fast reproductive