Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey was a Kenyan-British palaeoanthropologist and archaeologist whose work was important in demonstrating that humans evolved in Africa, particularly through discoveries made at Olduvai Gorge with his wife, fellow palaeoanthropologist Mary Leakey. Having established a programme of palaeoanthropological inquiry in eastern Africa, he also motivated many future generations to continue this scholarly work. Several members of the Leakey family became prominent scholars themselves.
Louis Leakey with his wife Mary in 1962
St. John's College, Cambridge.
Olduvai Gorge 2011.
Steen Cottage, Nasty, Great Munden in 2011
Paleoanthropology or paleo-anthropology is a branch of paleontology and anthropology which seeks to understand the early development of anatomically modern humans, a process known as hominization, through the reconstruction of evolutionary kinship lines within the family Hominidae, working from biological evidence and cultural evidence.
Charles Darwin
Five of the seven known fossil teeth of Homo luzonensis found in Callao Cave, the Philippines.
The Zhoukoudian site
Skull of Australopithecus africanus