Zaneta Thayer on Discrimination, Stress, and Health

Published on 06/01/2020
CATEGORIES: Speaker Series, Video

Did you know that babies born six subway stops apart in New York city have a nine year difference in life expectancy?

This month’s featured video is from biological anthropologist Zaneta Thayer of Dartmouth College. Her 2017 talk at the American Museum of Natural History addresses how trauma, poverty, and racial discrimination create health inequalities. In this talk, Dr. Thayer explores how our evolutionary history shaped our responses to stress and she explains the biological mechanisms through which early life stress influences health later on.

Category: : Speaker Series, Video
SUBJECT(S): health, stress, lecture, video

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Raymond Dart’s 1973 Lecture, “The Discovery of Australopithecus and Its Implications”

04.03.24 Video, Guest Post, From the Archive

Raymond Arthur Dart (1893-1988) announced, described, and named the first discovery of an Australopithecine in the February 7, 1925 issue of Nature. The now iconic specimen consisted of a partial fossilized face, jaw, and cast of the interior of the braincase of a young child from Taung, which Dart assigned to a new genus and species called Australopithecus africanus.

Live March 2022

03.01.22 Speaker Series, Lunch Break Science

Celebrate Women's History Month with The Leakey Foundation with these upcoming programs!

Event: Frans de Waal discusses gender through the eyes of a primatologist

02.25.22 Speaker Series

See world-renowned primatologist Dr. Frans de Waal's first public lecture on his new book Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist at The Leakey Foundation's first hybrid event on April 5, 2022.