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Origin Stories is The Leakey Foundation's podcast about how we became human.
Biruté Mary Galdikas passed away on March 24, 2026, at the age of 79. She spent more than 50 years studying orangutans in Borneo and fightin...
2025 was another exciting year in human origins research! In this episode, four scientists and Leakey Foundation grantees (and one podcast h...
This episode features two stories from the Science Podcast. First, Science writer Ann Gibbons tells the story of three ancient hominin speci...
This is a story about sweat, survival, speed, and the peculiar ways running may have shaped us as humans. Armed with a hydration vest, a dre...
After 10 years of exploring the stories behind breakthrough science, it's time to tell our own origin story! In this special anniversary epi...
Shanidar Cave is a unique archaeological site in Kurdistan where scientists found the remains of 10 Neanderthal men, women, and children. So...
2024 was another amazing year in human origins research. In this episode, three Leakey Foundation grantees (and one podcast host) share thei...
In this episode, we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the discovery of Lucy, one of the most iconic and important scientific discoveries eve...
Are humans the only animals that practice medicine? In this episode, two scientists share surprising observations of orangutans and chimpanz...
Over 50,000 years ago on what is now the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, someone climbed a towering rock formation and painted a mysterious i...
Early prehistorians had little more than stones and bones to work with as they tried to piece together the story of the Neanderthals, but to...
Why do humans have most of our hair on our heads, not our bodies? Why do we have so many varieties of hair color, thickness, and curliness?...
Music is universal in all human cultures, but why? What gives us the ability to hear sound as music? Are we the only musical species–or was...
What is it like to be responsible for the safekeeping of the ancestors of everyone in the world? In this episode, we travel to the National...
Travel through 50,000 years of human history following clues hidden inside beads made from ostrich eggshells. In this episode, researchers J...
2023 was another exciting year in human origins research! Fossil discoveries and long-term primate studies expanded our understanding of wha...
Sibling relationships can include everything from love and support–to tension, competition, and conflict. They might also play a fundamental...
Humans invest enormous amounts of time and energy into bringing up our babies. This unique investment is a fundamental part of what it means...
Humans invest enormous amounts of time and energy into bringing up our babies. This unique investment is a fundamental part of what it means...
How did climate change impact ancient human behavior? This is one of the questions Justin Pargeter and his team are investigating at a site...
This special episode takes you inside the world of archaeology students at Boomplaas Cave, one of South Africa's flagship human evolution re...
In this episode, we explore the fascinating tale of the Hobbit, an unexpected fossil find that shook the world's understanding of human evol...
Dr. Kira Westaway is part of an international research team working to solve the mystery of Gigantopithecus, the largest ape that ever walke...
How do human bodies use energy? In this episode, Leakey Foundation grantee Dr. Herman Pontzer shares groundbreaking research that upends our...
2022 was another exciting year in human origins research! New fossil discoveries and ancient DNA research expanded our understanding of the...
We've been hard at work on a new season of stories about how we became human. Origin Stories returns on January 31 with monthly episodes!
In this episode, we explore five strange fossilized footprints found by Mary Leakey at the site of Laetoli in Tanzania. Decades after their...
In this episode, we talk with Evan Hadingham, senior science editor for the PBS program NOVA. His new book, Discovering Us: 50 Great Discove...
2021 was a big year in science! Fossil discoveries introduced new relatives to our family tree, new findings added fascinating twists to the...
As a young girl, Biruté Mary Galdikas dreamed of going to the forests of Southeast Asia to study the least-known of all the great apes, the...
Scientists agree that dogs evolved from wolves, but exactly how and when that happened is hotly contested. In this episode, Origin Stories c...
Learn about the evolution of our extraordinary ability to cool ourselves down. Biological anthropologist Andrew Best discusses the past, pre...
Producer and scientist Kevin McLean travels to an island off the coast of Panama where researchers have found an isolated group of monkeys w...
The widely-held idea known as the "obstetrical dilemma" is a hypothesis that explains why babies are so helpless, and why childbirth is so d...
Sleep is one of the defining traits of human life. It's also one of the most mysterious. Dr. Horacio de la Iglesia is a neurobiologist who's...
What is it like to study an endangered species like chimpanzees, knowing they may go extinct within your lifetime? Leakey Foundation grantee...
Your life story is hidden in your teeth. The days, weeks, years, and stressful events of your life are recorded in tiny timelines that can b...
Early prehistorians had little more than stones and bones to work with as they tried to piece together the story of the Neanderthals, but to...
If exercise is healthy, why do so many people avoid doing it? If we're born to be active, why is it so hard to keep your New Year's resoluti...
In 2017, Dr. Isaiah Nengo announced the discovery of a 13 million-year-old fossil ape found in Kenya. This remarkable fossil, nicknamed Ales...
Variation in human skin color has fascinated and perplexed people for centuries. As the most visible aspect of human variation, skin color h...
September 30 is International Podcast Day and on this episode, we're handing things over to producer Lucía Benavides, who sat down with Leak...
Atapuerca is a place that holds the mystery of human evolution in Europe from 1.2 million years ago through recent times. You can find, in o...
What is it like to be responsible for the safekeeping of the ancestors of everyone in the world? In this episode, we travel to the National...
Have you ever considered how profoundly food has shaped who we are as a species? Julie Lesnik is a paleoanthropologist who studies the evolu...
Deep in the forests of Borneo, lives a society of hunter-gatherers who speak a language never before shared with outsiders. Until now. The C...
What happens when bows and arrows and face-to-face conversations are replaced by high powered weapons and cell phones practically overnight?...
A mysterious new human relative was discovered ten years ago from a pinky bone found in a Siberian cave. They're called the Denisovans, and...
In this episode, we explore the story of Piltdown Man – one of the most notorious hoaxes in history. When Piltdown Man was discovered in a g...
In the final installment of our "From the Archive" series, Kenyan paleoanthropologist Louis S.B. Leakey shares the story of his life and wor...