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Recent Leakey Foundation-supported research shows how a Denisovan gene variant involved in the production of mucus helped people adapt and survive in new environments.

New research investigated kissing in monkeys and apes, including modern humans and Neanderthals, to reconstruct its evolutionary history for the first time.

Majda El Bouhamdi is a Moroccan primatologist and conservation scientist studying Barbary macaques in Morocco’s Rif Mountains.

Washington National Cathedral will host a memorial service for world-renowned ethologist and conservationist Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE, on November 12, 2025, at 11:00 am Eastern Time. The service will be available via livestream for the public to watch online.

Young chimpanzees are innovative, inventing new tools and improving on ones that adults use. New research suggests that creative experimentation could make children important drivers of cultural evolution.

Stone tools from Georgia’s Dzudzuana Cave reveal the earliest evidence of indigo processing, dating back 34,000 years to the Ice Age.

Alejandra Pascual-Garrido is a scientist who, inspired by Jane Goodall, studied chimpanzees at Gombe National Park. Read her moving tribute.

Husna Mashaka’s research uncovers how climate and vegetation shifts shaped ancient human behavior. Her work offers insights for building climate resilience today.

Leakey Foundation grantee Abby McClain studies the impact of death, grief, and loss among the chimpanzees at Gombe National Park in Tanzania.

I have known Jane Goodall since 1970, when she gave me the opportunity of a lifetime to join her study of chimpanzees in Gombe National Park, Tanzania. Like many others who were similarly blessed, that experience changed my life.