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
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.
Richard Leakey
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Richard Erskine Frere Leakey was a Kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist and politician. Leakey held a number of official positions in Kenya, mostly in institutions of archaeology and wildlife c
Mary Leakey
…her husband, Leakey became director of excavations at Olduvai. She maintained the Leakey family tradition of palaeoanthropology by training her son, Richard, in the field. Mary Leakey was born on 6 February 1913, in London, England to Erskine Edward Nicol and Cecilia Marion (Frere) Nicol. The Nicol family…
Leakey in 1986
Turkana Boy – steps of forensic facial reconstruction/approximation
Leakey in 2010
Leakey in 2015