The Leakey Foundation

10.21.20

Turbulent environment set the stage for leaps in human evolution and technology 320,000 years ago

People thrive all across the globe, at every temperature, altitude and landscape. How did human beings become so successful at adapting to whatever environment we wind up in? Human origins researchers like me are interested in how this quintessential human trait, adaptability, evolved.

11.15.19

Global Climate Change Concerns for Africa’s Lake Victoria

Journal Article

Global climate change could cause Africa’s Lake Victoria, the world’s largest tropical lake and source of the Nile River, to dry up in the next 500 years, according to new findings funded in part by The Leakey Foundation. Even more imminent, the White Nile — one of the two main tributaries of the Nile — could lose its source waters in just a decade.

11.04.19

Grantee Spotlight: Andrew Bernard

Grantee Spotlight

Will primates move to track changes in their habitats, or might they modify their behavior, or even adapt, in place? If they do move, why? What elements of their habitats are actually changing that make it more or less preferable? These questions frame Leakey Foundation grantee Andrew Bernard's dissertation research in Gunung Palung National Park, West Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo.

04.15.16

Human Evolution and Earth’s Tipping Point

Being Human

Join The Leakey Foundation and Elizabeth Hadly on April 19th and celebrate Earth Day.

Archives for climate change

Turbulent environment set the stage for leaps in human evolution and technology 320,000 years ago

Global Climate Change Concerns for Africa’s Lake Victoria

Grantee Spotlight: Andrew Bernard

Human Evolution and Earth’s Tipping Point