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Pastoralism remains central to survival in the Turkana of northwest Kenya, where heat and water scarcity pose constant challenges. New research uncovers the genetic signatures that underlie adaptation to arid living in this pastoralist community.
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September 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Pastoralism remains central to survival in the Turkana of northwest Kenya, where heat and water scarcity pose constant challenges. New research uncovers the genetic signatures that underlie adaptation to arid living in this pastoralist community.
Learn more this week: https://scim.ag/4nxcJbx
Learn more this week: https://scim.ag/4nxcJbx
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🚨New Publication🚨
So happy to have this final chunk of my phd out, and the fruits of my @leakeyfoundation.org research grant 🙉
"arboreal, and especially suspensory, locomotion can be advantageous for foraging in a savannah-mosaic and not just closed forest habitats"
#phddone #womeninscience #wild
So happy to have this final chunk of my phd out, and the fruits of my @leakeyfoundation.org research grant 🙉
"arboreal, and especially suspensory, locomotion can be advantageous for foraging in a savannah-mosaic and not just closed forest habitats"
#phddone #womeninscience #wild
Frontiers | Foraging strategy and tree structure as drivers of arboreality and suspensory behaviour in savannah-dwelling chimpanzees
IntroductionThe association between an open habitat (e.g., savannah-mosaics) and increased terrestriality is central to hypotheses of hominin evolution, espe...
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July 29, 2025 at 3:58 PM
🚨New Publication🚨
So happy to have this final chunk of my phd out, and the fruits of my @leakeyfoundation.org research grant 🙉
"arboreal, and especially suspensory, locomotion can be advantageous for foraging in a savannah-mosaic and not just closed forest habitats"
#phddone #womeninscience #wild
So happy to have this final chunk of my phd out, and the fruits of my @leakeyfoundation.org research grant 🙉
"arboreal, and especially suspensory, locomotion can be advantageous for foraging in a savannah-mosaic and not just closed forest habitats"
#phddone #womeninscience #wild
Three ancient human relatives once shared the same valley. Did they meet—and compete? www.science.org/content/arti...
Three ancient human relatives once shared the same valley. Did they meet—and compete?
The world’s greatest concentration of ancestral human remains, in South Africa, poses a 2-million-year-old riddle of coexistence
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July 29, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Three ancient human relatives once shared the same valley. Did they meet—and compete? www.science.org/content/arti...
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Wrapping up my first month in Italy! From exploring collagen yields using NIR, to examining bone surface modifications, running modern specimens through the MALDI-TOF, and learning to interpret collagen signatures—it's been full-on.
@leakeyfoundation.org @National Museum, Bloemfontein
@leakeyfoundation.org @National Museum, Bloemfontein
July 15, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Wrapping up my first month in Italy! From exploring collagen yields using NIR, to examining bone surface modifications, running modern specimens through the MALDI-TOF, and learning to interpret collagen signatures—it's been full-on.
@leakeyfoundation.org @National Museum, Bloemfontein
@leakeyfoundation.org @National Museum, Bloemfontein
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Congratulations to CASHP member, Joyce Waweru!
We're thrilled to announce the 2025 Leakey Foundation Baldwin Fellows! Click through to learn about these 14 scholars and their exciting human origins research. leakeyfoundation.org/announcing-t...
Announcing the 2025 Baldwin Fellows
Meet the 2025 Baldwin Fellows! This year, 14 scholars from 11 countries have received fellowships, empowering them to become future leaders.
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July 9, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Congratulations to CASHP member, Joyce Waweru!
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Congratulations to CASHP member, Sims Patton!
🎉 Congratulations to the spring 2025 Leakey Foundation grantees! We'll be sharing more about these amazing scientists and their work as their projects progress. leakeyfoundation.org/introducing-...
Introducing the spring 2025 Leakey Foundation grantees
Meet the spring 2025 Leakey Foundation grantees. Their innovative research will shed new light on human origins, evolution, and behavior.
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July 9, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Congratulations to CASHP member, Sims Patton!
Looking for research funding? Is your work relevant to understanding human origins? Our next deadline is July 15! Learn more and apply! #ScienceFunding #HumanEvolution leakeyfoundation.org/grants-schol...
July 8, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Looking for research funding? Is your work relevant to understanding human origins? Our next deadline is July 15! Learn more and apply! #ScienceFunding #HumanEvolution leakeyfoundation.org/grants-schol...
🎉 Congratulations to the spring 2025 Leakey Foundation grantees! We'll be sharing more about these amazing scientists and their work as their projects progress. leakeyfoundation.org/introducing-...
Introducing the spring 2025 Leakey Foundation grantees
Meet the spring 2025 Leakey Foundation grantees. Their innovative research will shed new light on human origins, evolution, and behavior.
leakeyfoundation.org
July 8, 2025 at 10:51 PM
🎉 Congratulations to the spring 2025 Leakey Foundation grantees! We'll be sharing more about these amazing scientists and their work as their projects progress. leakeyfoundation.org/introducing-...
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My PhD student Emmanuel, co advised with @mcnultylab.bsky.social, is a Baldwin fellow 🎉🍾🙌🏽👏🏽! Thanks Leakey Foundation for supporting these talented scholars :-) learn more about Emmanuel’s work and background here: www.nievescolonlab.org/about-emmanuel
July 8, 2025 at 1:06 AM
My PhD student Emmanuel, co advised with @mcnultylab.bsky.social, is a Baldwin fellow 🎉🍾🙌🏽👏🏽! Thanks Leakey Foundation for supporting these talented scholars :-) learn more about Emmanuel’s work and background here: www.nievescolonlab.org/about-emmanuel
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Congratulations to the new Baldwin Fellows, including 2 of my students, Penina Kadalida (c/a with Martha Tappen) and Emmanuel Ngetich (c/a with @mitopr.bsky.social)! Thanks to the @leakeyfoundation.org for supporting all of these students and their staunch support for Paleoanthropology!
We're thrilled to announce the 2025 Leakey Foundation Baldwin Fellows! Click through to learn about these 14 scholars and their exciting human origins research. leakeyfoundation.org/announcing-t...
Announcing the 2025 Baldwin Fellows
Meet the 2025 Baldwin Fellows! This year, 14 scholars from 11 countries have received fellowships, empowering them to become future leaders.
leakeyfoundation.org
July 8, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Congratulations to the new Baldwin Fellows, including 2 of my students, Penina Kadalida (c/a with Martha Tappen) and Emmanuel Ngetich (c/a with @mitopr.bsky.social)! Thanks to the @leakeyfoundation.org for supporting all of these students and their staunch support for Paleoanthropology!
We're thrilled to announce the 2025 Leakey Foundation Baldwin Fellows! Click through to learn about these 14 scholars and their exciting human origins research. leakeyfoundation.org/announcing-t...
Announcing the 2025 Baldwin Fellows
Meet the 2025 Baldwin Fellows! This year, 14 scholars from 11 countries have received fellowships, empowering them to become future leaders.
leakeyfoundation.org
July 7, 2025 at 9:41 PM
We're thrilled to announce the 2025 Leakey Foundation Baldwin Fellows! Click through to learn about these 14 scholars and their exciting human origins research. leakeyfoundation.org/announcing-t...
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Proud of UMich grad student Rosa Muñoz for being awarded an @leakeyfoundation.org grant for her dissertation research on "The evolution and psychology of possession in macaques." Congrats Rosa, and all the new grantees!
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July 4, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Proud of UMich grad student Rosa Muñoz for being awarded an @leakeyfoundation.org grant for her dissertation research on "The evolution and psychology of possession in macaques." Congrats Rosa, and all the new grantees!
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Honored to be a Spring 2025 Leakey Foundation Research Grant recipient. I’m deeply grateful to the @leakeyfoundation.org for supporting research in human origins, and to my supervisor @naelnadifkasri-lab.bsky.social for the invaluable guidance and encourargement. leakeyfoundation.org/introducing-...
Introducing the spring 2025 Leakey Foundation grantees
Meet the spring 2025 Leakey Foundation grantees. Their innovative research will shed new light on human origins, evolution, and behavior.
leakeyfoundation.org
July 4, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Honored to be a Spring 2025 Leakey Foundation Research Grant recipient. I’m deeply grateful to the @leakeyfoundation.org for supporting research in human origins, and to my supervisor @naelnadifkasri-lab.bsky.social for the invaluable guidance and encourargement. leakeyfoundation.org/introducing-...
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#Nakali🇰🇪 🦍⚒️🦴
Thrilled to be awarded a Research Grant from the @leakeyfoundation.org
I’m happy to count on a great team, some of them are on @bsky.app 👇🏽
@dmartinperea.bsky.social
@albavicente.bsky.social
Congratulations to the other amazing awardees 👏🏼
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Thrilled to be awarded a Research Grant from the @leakeyfoundation.org
I’m happy to count on a great team, some of them are on @bsky.app 👇🏽
@dmartinperea.bsky.social
@albavicente.bsky.social
Congratulations to the other amazing awardees 👏🏼
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July 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
#Nakali🇰🇪 🦍⚒️🦴
Thrilled to be awarded a Research Grant from the @leakeyfoundation.org
I’m happy to count on a great team, some of them are on @bsky.app 👇🏽
@dmartinperea.bsky.social
@albavicente.bsky.social
Congratulations to the other amazing awardees 👏🏼
leakeyfoundation.org/introducing-...
Thrilled to be awarded a Research Grant from the @leakeyfoundation.org
I’m happy to count on a great team, some of them are on @bsky.app 👇🏽
@dmartinperea.bsky.social
@albavicente.bsky.social
Congratulations to the other amazing awardees 👏🏼
leakeyfoundation.org/introducing-...
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Second week is over. While first week focused on launching this season dig and field lab, second week led us to some rock art sampling, #ochre outcrop sampling, exciting finds on the dig 🤩 .
@justinpargeter.bsky.social with support of @leakeyfoundation.org and PAST.
@justinpargeter.bsky.social with support of @leakeyfoundation.org and PAST.
May 26, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Second week is over. While first week focused on launching this season dig and field lab, second week led us to some rock art sampling, #ochre outcrop sampling, exciting finds on the dig 🤩 .
@justinpargeter.bsky.social with support of @leakeyfoundation.org and PAST.
@justinpargeter.bsky.social with support of @leakeyfoundation.org and PAST.
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Our two southern African masters students working on #ochre M. Sepamo and P. T. Alfeus collected their raw material for their experimentation and started to learn how to describe them. @justinpargeter.bsky.social @leakeyfoundation.org and PAST.
May 26, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Our two southern African masters students working on #ochre M. Sepamo and P. T. Alfeus collected their raw material for their experimentation and started to learn how to describe them. @justinpargeter.bsky.social @leakeyfoundation.org and PAST.
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Incredibly proud that our paper on the #palaeoproteomics analysis of the Penghu mandible, led by @tsutatsuta.bsky.social and in collaboration with Chun-Hsiang Chang, Enrico Cappellini and co, is out now in
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A male Denisovan mandible from Pleistocene Taiwan
Denisovans are an extinct hominin group defined by ancient genomes of Middle to Late Pleistocene fossils from southern Siberia. Although genomic evidence suggests their widespread distribution through...
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April 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Incredibly proud that our paper on the #palaeoproteomics analysis of the Penghu mandible, led by @tsutatsuta.bsky.social and in collaboration with Chun-Hsiang Chang, Enrico Cappellini and co, is out now in
@science.org! doi.org/10.1126/scie...
@science.org! doi.org/10.1126/scie...
Our friends at @ncse.bsky.social have launched a podcast to help combat misinformation, disinformation, and misconceptions about #ClimateChange with actual science. Check it out!
Episode 2 of Safeguarding Sound Science is now out wherever you listen to your podcasts! Historian Naomi Oreskes (@naomioreskes.bsky.social) discusses a century of disinformation - ncse.ngo/safeguarding... #SciencePodcast #SciSky #HistorySky
Safeguarding Sound Science | National Center for Science Education
Safeguarding Sound Science, Climate Change EditionSafeguarding Sound Science combats misinformation, disinformation, and misconceptions about climate change with actual science.
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March 21, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Our friends at @ncse.bsky.social have launched a podcast to help combat misinformation, disinformation, and misconceptions about #ClimateChange with actual science. Check it out!
Did Neanderthals eat maggots? High nitrogen in Neanderthal bones doesn’t mean they were uber-carnivores. www.science.org/content/arti...
Neanderthals may have eaten maggots as part of their diet
High nitrogen in Neanderthal bones doesn’t mean they were uber-carnivores
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March 19, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Did Neanderthals eat maggots? High nitrogen in Neanderthal bones doesn’t mean they were uber-carnivores. www.science.org/content/arti...
Need a last minute #StandUpForScience sign? Head to our website and download our free graphic. We have 3 sizes and 2 colorways. leakeyfoundation.org/stand-up-for...
March 7, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Need a last minute #StandUpForScience sign? Head to our website and download our free graphic. We have 3 sizes and 2 colorways. leakeyfoundation.org/stand-up-for...
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La Science n a pas à subir les aléas de la politique. La Science aide à avancer vers un monde plus respectueux.
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March 7, 2025 at 10:23 AM
La Science n a pas à subir les aléas de la politique. La Science aide à avancer vers un monde plus respectueux.
@umr5608traces.bsky.social @standupforscifr.bsky.social @standupforscifr.bsky.social @leakeyfoundation.bsky.social
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Ever wondered what happens to your grant proposal once you submit it? Join a hands-on “mock review” workshop to learn about review processes at The Leakey Foundation and the Wenner-Gren Foundation. March 12 at #AABA2025. Registration is limited so act fast! @bioanth.org bit.ly/4havY78
AABA Workshop in Baltimore: What happens to my grant proposal? Peek into the process through mock review!
This workshop introduces early career scholars to the grant review process through mock review exercises with experienced panelists and representatives from Leakey and Wenner-Gren.
Date and Time: Marc...
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March 4, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Ever wondered what happens to your grant proposal once you submit it? Join a hands-on “mock review” workshop to learn about review processes at The Leakey Foundation and the Wenner-Gren Foundation. March 12 at #AABA2025. Registration is limited so act fast! @bioanth.org bit.ly/4havY78
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Thanks a lot @leakeyfoundation.bsky.social for supporting our work!
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Earliest evidence for humans in rainforests
New research shows that humans lived in African rainforests 150,000 years ago. This is more than twice as early than previously thought.
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February 27, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Thanks a lot @leakeyfoundation.bsky.social for supporting our work!
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Live right now! The Origin of Love from our friends at CARTA. Click through to watch! ❤️
CARTA: The Origin of Love
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February 14, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Live right now! The Origin of Love from our friends at CARTA. Click through to watch! ❤️
Happy Darwin Day! “There is grandeur in this view of life–that from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
February 12, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Happy Darwin Day! “There is grandeur in this view of life–that from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”