2 million year old fossils found in 1995 by Meave Leakey and Alan Walker in Kenya (Australepithecus anamensis). These latter show clear signs of walking upright and of living in a wooded area ...

They and their children (especially Richard and his wife Meave) became known as the first family of paleontology. Louis Leakey was born in 1903 in Kenya, where his English parents were missionaries.

Louise Leakey’s parents, Richard and Meave, continued the tradition and performed notable research at the Turkana Basin. Kenyans working for Louise Leakey made the discovery. Early humans Using ...