Grantee Spotlight: Shehani Fernando
What does urban life do to the gut microbiome? Researcher Shehani Fernando is finding out by studying wild macaques in Sri Lanka.
Grantee Spotlight: Maria Creighton
Maria Creighton is a PhD candidate at Duke University studying one of the most fundamental questions in social evolution: does having strong social bonds actually make you healthier, or do healthier people simply have more energy to be social?
My grandmother, Mary Leakey
Third-generation paleoanthropologist Louise Leakey reflects on the life and legacy of her grandmother, Mary Leakey.
Grantee Spotlight: Olayemi Ajayi
Olayemi Ajayi is a Leakey Foundation grantee whose research will help us understand how animals respond on a molecular level to environmental change.
Research roundup: February 2026
Each month, we publish a roundup of new human origins research supported by Leakey Foundation grants. This is the science your support makes possible.