Grantee Spotlight: Alexandra Uhl
“These are some of the non-adult crania we scanned at Universität Tübingen. That’s our CT scanner in the background. We also did DNA analysis on the teeth from these individuals.”
In the spring of 2014 The Leakey Foundation awarded Alexandra Uhl, PhD candidate from the University of Tübingen in Germany, a research grant for her project entitled “Sex determination in
From the Field: Isaiah Nengo, Lake Turkana Basin, Kenya
Leakey Foundation grantee Isaiah Nengo (spring 2014) has recently returned from the field with exciting news! Isaiah Nengo at work in the Lake Turkana Basin
Plio-Pleistocene sediments of the Lake Turkana basin have provided numerous fossils key to our current understanding of the origin and evolutionary history of the hominid lineage in Africa. Scattered within the vast Plio-Pleistocene deposits are
Grantee Spotlight: Nathan Thompson
Nathan Thompson explaining to a kinematic subject how head motion relates to the semicircular canal organs in the inner ear.
Nathan Thompson, PhD candidate from Stony Brook University, was awarded a Leakey Foundation research grant in spring of 2014 for his project entitled “Kinematics and evolution of upper body stability in hominins.”
Humans are unique among our primate relatives
Stress in wild female Assamese macaques
Julia Ostner
University of Göttingen
Researchers have been performing daily focal observations and fecal sampling on this study group of habituated Assamese macaques in Thailand’s Phu Khieo Wildlife Sanctuary since October 2006. For her investigation of ecological, social and reproductive stress in female macaques, Julia Ostner used data collected between September 2007 and February 2009. This time period included two
Research Report: The function(s) of a long-distance signal: The orangutan long call
Brigitte Spillmann was awarded a Leakey Foundation research grant in spring 2010 for her PhD project focusing on the functions of the long call, the long distance signal of the flanged male orangutan.