“The iconic work of the famous archaeologists Drs. Louis and Mary Leakey, which discovered early human fossils … and the world’s first human stone tools ignited my fascination and fueled the ...
When Louis Leakey and Mary Nicol first met ... In his year off, he joined a fossil-finding expedition to what is now Tanzania, which opened his eyes to the field and to the question of human ...
afarensis fossil (AL 288-1), nicknamed "Lucy ... In 1959, an extremely robust australopithecine was discovered by Mary Leakey at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania. Leakey originally named the skull ...
afarensis fossils as early as 1939 ... A year after that, a different team led by Mary Leakey found early human trackways in rocks of similar age at Laetoli, Tanzania, footprints eventually ...
Many human-like fossils that provide additional evidence for human evolution were found by the archaeologists Mary and Louis Leakey. Mary was British and her husband, Louis, was Kenyan.
Born Dec. 19, 1944, Leakey was destined for palaeoanthropology -- the study of the human fossil record -- as the middle son of Louis and Mary Leakey, one of the most famous couples in history as ...
When Louis Leakey and Mary Nicol first met ... In his year off, he joined a fossil-finding expedition to what is now Tanzania, which opened his eyes to the field and to the question of human ...