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#FossilFriday Louis Leakey with 'Zinjanthropus' skull+newspaper Natural History Museum in 1959. Found by Mary Leakey, ‘Zinj’ was assumed to represent the earliest toolmaker at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, until the discovery of Homo habilis. Pic by Anthony Sutcliffe.
Huge congratulations to Altayeb for receiving a #BaldwinFellowship! Thank you The Leakey Foundation! He will study quartz lithic assemblages made by some of the earliest hunter-gatherer-fisher communities to have reoccupied Central Sudan after the LGM. leakeyfoundation.org/announcing-the…
Really excited that I've received a Leakey Foundation Research Grant to support my research on primate stone tool use. I'll be even more excited when the data collection will start in the coming months! The Leakey Foundation leakeyfoundation.org/spring-2024-re…
In the final week of this years The Leakey Foundation funded excavations at open air MP sites in northern Armenia. 🇦🇲
And that is a wrap on our first (and very muddy) The Leakey Foundation funded field season in northern Armenia 🇦🇲. A huge thank you to our volunteer team that made this year such a success!
Our latest member profile is posted! Dr. Leslie Aiello (Leslie Aiello) has had an inspiring career, including running the Wenner-Gren Foundation (Wenner-Gren Foundation) from 2005-2016. Check out her full profile here: bawmn.org/social-media/
Last week we presented first data from our Geladas_for_Cooperation project at the conference of the Italian Society for the study of Animal Behaviour Società Italiana di Etologia in Turin! Emotions and prosociality in vocal exchanges of wild geladas… so happy and proud 🐒 @EthosLabo The Leakey Foundation
🌍✨ Join PAST, The Leakey Foundation, and Human Origins at SI this Saturday, 14 Sept, for a free online event celebrating two iconic African fossils. Moderated by Lauren Schroeder, explore the past, present, and future of African palaeoscience. Register now: streamyard.com/watch/W9nUBwMD…
🚨 Presenting our new publication link.springer.com/article/10.100… on IntJPrimatology at the conference of the Italian Society for Zoology (UZI) in Pisa! 🐒 The Leakey Foundation geladas and baboons interspecies interactions!
🌍 Join us, The Leakey Foundation and Inst of HumanOrigins TOMORROW for our ✨free✨ webinar exploring the past, present and future of human origins research in Africa through the lens of two iconic discoveries. 🌍 For more information and to register visit: past.org.za/lucy-and-the-t…
ICYMI - Lucy and the Taung Child: A Century of Science with Lucy ASUIHO and PAST AFRICA. Moderated by Lauren Schroeder. youtube.com/live/H9Eye5QxM…
The Paleo-Primate Project Gorongosa's excavations in Gorongosa National Park this summer were supported by a research grant awarded to @bobe_rene by The Leakey Foundation. This work forms part of the team's innovative research on Eastern Africa’s coastal forests and hominin origins 🦴
We are delighted that over half of this year's Gorongosa Interdisciplinary Field School in Human Evolution student cohort received funding from The Leakey Foundation or PAST AFRICA to support their travel to Gorongosa National Park this summer 👏 ICArEHB Universidade Algarve
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Lucy’s discovery Wednesday, Nov. 6 at 9 p.m. on Arizona PBS
I just donated to The Leakey Foundation to support great science! Join me on #GivingTuesday2024 (I can't wait to see what great projects they support next)!