A fire rescue division chief shares how understanding human origins made her a better leader. How has your interest in human origins changed your perspective? We'd love to hear! @firefighternation.bsky.social www.firefighternation.com/fire-leaders...

Join us in congratulating our outstanding members who have received the prestigious AABA annual awards for 2026. The 2026 AABA and @leakeyfoundation.org Communication and Outreach Award in Honor of Camilla Smith recipient is Himani Nautiyal!

Meet our fall 2025 research grant recipients! Thanks to our donors, we awarded grants to 30 scientists exploring fundamental questions about human origins, including 17 PhD candidates at the start of their careers.

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

🚨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

Three ancient human relatives once shared the same valley. Did they meet—and compete? www.science.org/content/arti...

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

Congratulations to CASHP member, Joyce Waweru!

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...

🎉 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-...

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

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...

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! leakeyfoundation.org/introducing-...

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-...

#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-...

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.

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.

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...

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...

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...

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

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

Thanks a lot @leakeyfoundation.bsky.social for supporting our work! leakeyfoundation.org/earliest-evi...

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.”⁠

1 hour left until our Darwin Day Webinar with Katie Hinde begins! TODAY @ 7 ET 4 PT. The event is free and open to the public! If you don't have a link, make sure to register nabt.wufoo.com/forms/m1dcb9... #DarwinDay2025 #2025MMM @mmmletsgo.bsky.social @mammalssuck.bsky.social @nabtbio.bsky.social

Can stress help monkeys survive? New research shows that on wild capuchin monkeys with stronger stress responses during previous droughts were more likely to survive an extreme drought. Study by Leakey grantees @sccarrera.bsky.social @irene-godoy.bsky.social @jbeehner.bsky.social & colleagues.

@leakeyfoundation.bsky.social youtu.be/sMfQeZpyq-Y?... Happy Birthday Taung! #FossilFriday

So proud of this #Taung Child special issue from the South African Journal of Science (SAJS). And having our Co-directors Rebecca Ackermann & @pickeringrobyn.bsky.social along with HERI's Lauren Schroeder and UCT's Yonatan Sahle supporting to guest edit the special issue. sajs.co.za/article/view...

100 years ago, you could read about the “Fossilized Skull that May Be That of Missing Link” in the NY Times for two cents. Celebrating the Taung Child's centenary: fossilhistory.wordpress.com/2025/02/07/1...

A century ago, a small skull discovered at a South African quarry challenged what we thought we knew about human origins. 50 years later, discovery of Lucy in Ethiopia further transformed our understanding of how we became human.🏺🧪 Watch expert discussion hosted by @leakeyfoundation.bsky.social

This tiny fossilized skull belonged to a 3-year-old child that lived around 2.8 million years ago! Today we’re celebrating the 100th anniversary of the announcement of the discovery of the Taung Child, Australopithecus africanus. #onthisday

Extremely grateful to be one of The Leakey Foundation Research Grant Recipients @leakeyfoundation.bsky.social The then young intern in the photo could only have dreamed that his research would one day be supported by this fantastic foundation. Huge thanks to my mentor & collaborators on the project!

Proud to announce that I am one of the Fall 2024 Leakey Research Grant Recipients It has been a dream to be funded by the @leakeyfoundation.bsky.social who made my research possible A huge thank you to my supervisors for their encouragement and support leakeyfoundation.org/fall-2024-re...

We're thrilled to introduce the fall 2024 Francis H. Brown African Scholars! This award recognizes and supports outstanding East African students and researchers whose work is focused on the earth sciences or botany related to human origins. leakeyfoundation.org/fall-2024-fr...

one of my favorite side projects funded by the @leakeyfoundation.bsky.social and the Duke Lemur Center is finally published today in @royalsocietypublishing.org ! in this study, we compare in vivo grip force to anatomic estimates from eleven species of strepsirrhine lemurs doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

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