Louis Leakey
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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 a
Louis Leakey with his wife Mary in 1962
St. John's College, Cambridge.
Olduvai Gorge in 2011.
Steen Cottage, Nasty, Great Munden in 2011
Mary Leakey
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Mary Douglas Leakey, FBA was a British paleoanthropologist who discovered the first fossilised Proconsul skull, an extinct ape believed to be ancestral to humans. She also discovered the robust Zinjan
Louis Leakey
…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…
Leakey in 1977
Mary and Louis Leakey at Olduvai Gorge
Replica of the skull "Zinjanthropus", sometimes known as "Nutcracker Man", found by Mary Leakey.
Plinth with plaque sited in Olduvai Gorge marking the spot where Mary Leakey discovered "Zinjanthropus", the first-found A. boisei in Africa.