Dr Louis Leakey is honoured for establishing the evolution of mankind began in Africa.

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Famous paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey brings a 20 million year-old proconsul africanus skull - that she found during an excavation on Lake Victoria - to the UK with her.

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Kamoya Kimeu, a Kenyan who worked with the renowned Leakey family of paleontologists, was considered one of the world’s most successful fossil hunters, digging up skeletons millions of years old ...

Leakey became involved in acrimonious scientific arguments — sometimes he was right, sometimes not — which, during the 1970s, gave an antagonistic tone to human-origins research.

On the other hand, Leakey’s diehard disciples, the men and women with whom he had fought in the trenches in his wildlife wars with poachers, were euphoric, convinced that their man, about whom ...

Richard Leakey with 20 tons of elephant tusks captured from poachers in 1991. The tusks were burned to keep ivory off the international market and to discourage the illegal killing of elephants.

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

Richard Leakey with an Australopithecus skull in his right hand and his famed “1470" skull that led to the identification of the species Homo rudolfensis in his left hand.

Leakey, who unearthed evidence that helped to prove humankind evolved in Africa, died on Sunday at the age of 77, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta said.