Houston Book Talk – Fed Up: What Evolution Reveals about Food, Diet, Health, and Eating Well
How many times a day do you ask the question, “What should I eat?” In this talk and his new book, Fed Up, best-selling author and Harvard professor Daniel Lieberman untangles the confusion around this question we never evolved to ask.
Grantee Spotlight: Raquel Hernando
Raquel Hernando, a postdoctoral researcher at CENIEH and Leakey Foundation grantee, reconstructs the diets of fossil primates to understand how they adapted to environmental change.
Golden lion tamarin habitat restoration, hope, and survival
Learn how science and collaboration are helping ensure the golden lion tamarin’s survival.
Survival of the Friendliest
What if the secret to “survival of the fittest” isn't strength, smarts, or power but rather the ability to connect and cooperate? Join evolutionary anthropologist and bestselling author Dr. Brian Hare and discover how cooperation and sociability have shaped the success of species like dogs, bonobos, and especially us humans.
Grantee Spotlight: Irene Smail
Leakey Foundation grantee Irene Smail is using information from fossil primates to model how closely-related primate species may have interacted with each other in the past. Her research will shed light on why our species survived while others went extinct.