Prominent paleoanthropologist, Meave Leakey, provides an excellent overview of how we know what we know about human evolution as told by her life in research ...

A team led by Meave Leakey, daughter-in-law of famed scientist Louis Leakey, found facial bones from one creature and jawbones from two others in Kenya.

MEAVE LEAKEY: Well, I think, yes, it definitely is a good boost for morale and helps to be more positive, because it takes a long time to find something like this.

Meave Leakey thinks it could be her discovery, Kenyanthropus, the flat face man. MEAVE LEAKEY: For such a long time we've believed there was just a single linear, a single ancestor.

Richard Leakey, the world-famous paleontologist responsible for some of the most important fossil finds, died at the age of 77 this past Sunday.

Bloodstains and shell casings were discovered at the home of the then-missing Oklahoma mother whose body was later found wrapped in a carpet in a ditch — as her husband has retained a lawyer ...

Louise's parents, Richard and Meave Leakey, continued the family's fieldwork, especially at Turkana Basin. It was in 1968 that Richard Leakey set up an expedition in northern Kenya, she said.

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.

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 ...

Leakey also worked from the Stony Brook campus on Long Island in the Department of Anthropology, where his wife, Meave Leakey and daughter Louise Leakey are both professors.