“I was really lucky,” she says, “because Louis Leakey believed that women would make better observers in the field than men. He thought that they would be more patient.” In She Walks With ...

When Louis Leakey and Mary Nicol first met, he asked her to help with illustrations for his upcoming (1934) book Adam's Ancestors: An Up-to-Date Outline of What is Known about the Origin of Man.

National Geographic Explorer at Large Louise Leakey directs expeditions at the Koobi Fora Research Project in northern Kenya’s Turkana Basin. A third-generation paleoanthropologist, Louise ...

The research is a result of a project run by paleontologist Louise Leakey. Her grandparents, famed paleoanthropologists Louis and Mary Leakey, made the family renowned for finds at Olduvai Gorge ...

Had it not been for his father Louis Leakey’s swift injection with an anti-venom, Richard shuddered to think of what would have happened. Years later, his kidney malfunctioned and doctors said ...

One of man’s earliest ancestors, says Anthropologist Louis Leakey, was a puny creature named Kenyapithecus africanus that inhabited the earth 20 million years ago. Bones that Leakey found in his ...

But as he waited for the promised kidney, Leakey was waging a different type of battle. He was trying to oust Prof Bethwell Ogot as head of The International Louis Leakey Memorial Institute for ...

Bed I, the oldest, is about 2 million years old. From the late 1930s, Louis and Mary Leakey found stone tools in Olduvai and elsewhere, found several extinct vertebrates, including the 25-million ...