In August 1998, a technician named Meave Leakey discovered a left upper jaw bone at Lomekwi west, near Lake Turkana in Kenya, ...

By examining fossils, Prof Fredrick Kyalo Manthi helps us understand how life on Earth has evolved over time. He is a leading Kenyan palaeontologist and the Director of Antiquities, Sites, and ...

In this archival image, Richard Leakey and Meave Epps examine fossils on a rocky hillside near the northeastern shore of Lake Turkana as they attempt to piece together an early hominid.

Dated to between 1.78 million and 1.95 million years ago, the remains were uncovered within six miles (ten kilometers) of the 1972 skull, which was discovered by Meave Leakey's husband ...

Using their new specimen to rework humanity’s pedigree, paleoanthropologist Meave Leakey and her colleagues at the National Museums of Kenya in Nairobi argue in research made public today that ...

By Steve Brusatte FOSSIL MEN The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind By Kermit Pattison THE SEDIMENTS OF TIME My Lifelong Search for the Past By Meave Leakey with Samira ...

The discovery by Meave Leakey, a member of a famous family of paleontologists, shows that two species of early human ancestors lived at the same time in Kenya. That pokes holes in the chief theory ...

But Meave Leakey and colleagues report in this week's journal Nature that the new species, named Kenyanthropus platyops, Greek for "flat-faced man of Kenya," lived at the same time as Lucy's species.

It is of a human ancestor like no other. DR MEAVE LEAKEY (National Museum of Kenya): We didn't realise how different it was until we began comparing in the, in the museum and that was a very ...

His wife Meave discovered important new fossils, but no Leakey heir had stepped forward. Richard's daughter Louise was studying in England, and hesitant about taking up the family trade.

Sweet Fern Productions - Mary Leakey and the Laetoli Footprints Rough Video Cut 09/03/15 Narrators: Meave Leakey, Stony Brook University Ian Tattersall, American Museum of Natural History Pat ...