Today is the 105th birthday of legendary paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey, the matriarch of not only two generations of renowned archaeologists, but of an entire field of study. She accomplished ...

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 ...

A native of Kenya, Leakey is one of three sons born to Louis and Mary Leakey, world-renowned paleoanthropologists and archaeologists who uncovered some of the most important fossils in Africa. Richard ...

Books have been written about his work as a paleontologist and that of his famous parents, paleontologists Louis and Mary Leakey, who proved through their many fossil discoveries, that Africa ...

Curiosity runs in Richard Leakey’s family. His parents, Louis and Mary Leakey, uncovered the fossils that established Africa as the birthplace of humans, and Richard Leakey also has made many ...

When it came to finding humanity’s ancestors, Mary Leakey had no parallel. Born on this day in 1913, Leakey did so much to advance the study of ancient humans that she has been called “the ...

“It’s not in good shape.” Leakey, 52, is the granddaughter of Louis and Mary Leakey, who put East Africa on the paleontological map with the discovery of a 1.75 million-year-old human ...

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 ...

He worked with his second wife, Mary Leakey, and made discoveries such as the remains of Homo habilis while setting new standards in the field. Dr Leakey believed humans had evolved together as a ...

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.

September 30, 2008 at 5:00 pm PDT And you thought you had a lot to live up to: Richard Leakey is the son of Louis and Mary Leakey, the pioneering researchers on human origins in Africa. Although ...