The kids are smarter than you think
Young chimpanzees are innovative, inventing new tools and improving on ones that adults use. New research suggests that creative experimentation could make children important drivers of cultural evolution.
Tangled up in blue: Solving an Ice Age puzzle
Stone tools from Georgia's Dzudzuana Cave reveal the earliest evidence of indigo processing, dating back 34,000 years to the Ice Age.
What Jane Goodall taught me
Alejandra Pascual-Garrido is a scientist who, inspired by Jane Goodall, studied chimpanzees at Gombe National Park. Read her moving tribute.
Grantee Spotlight: Husna Mashaka
Husna Mashaka's research uncovers how climate and vegetation shifts shaped ancient human behavior. Her work offers insights for building climate resilience today.
Abby McClain: Examining grief and loss at Gombe
Leakey Foundation grantee Abby McClain studies the impact of death, grief, and loss among the chimpanzees at Gombe National Park in Tanzania.