Grantee Spotlight: Margaret Furtner
Learn about Margaret Furtner, a Leakey Foundation grantee using new technology to explore for fossil sites in South Africa’s Cradle of Humankind.
Grantee Spotlight: Clara Mariencheck
Learn about Clara Mariencheck, a PhD Candidate in the Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology at the George Washington University whose research explores primate genetics, immunogenetics, and sociality. She received a Leakey Foundation grant in 2024 for her project called “How an extra X chromosome may enhance immunity.”
What Makes Us Human? Lessons from the Study of Wild Chimpanzees
In this talk, John Mitani will discuss how his 23-year study of an unusually large community of chimpanzees at Ngogo in Kibale National Park, Uganda, challenges our notions of what makes us human. Studies of the Ngogo chimpanzees indicate that the gap between them and us may be smaller than previously thought.
What Makes Us Human? Lessons from the Study of Wild Chimpanzees
In this talk, John Mitani will discuss how his 23-year study of an unusually large community of chimpanzees at Ngogo in Kibale National Park, Uganda, challenges our notions of what makes us human. Studies of the Ngogo chimpanzees indicate that the gap between them and us may be smaller than previously thought.
Atapuerca: Crossroads of Human Evolution in Europe
In this talk María Martinón-Torres will discuss her work tracing the origins of our closest extinct relatives, the Neanderthals. She will also share how fossils of Homo antecessor, an early human species, found at Atapuerca have shifted our understanding of the ancestry of the first Europeans.