Louis Leakey was born in 1903 in Kenya, where his English parents were missionaries. He learned the Kikuyu language and customs, and while searching for birds as a young man often found ...

Today marks 100 years since the birth of Louis Leakey, the patriarch of the first family of human fossils. NPR's Christopher Joyce reports for National Geographic Radio Expeditions.

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Louis Leakey had a problem. During the summer of 1959 he and his wife Mary recovered the skull fragments of an early human scattered about the fossil deposits of Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania.

Louis Leakey had a showman's flair for public speaking and fundraising, and uncanny good luck at finding fossils. Mary Leakey had a head for the detailed technical work of excavation, specimen ...

Louis Leakey made his own equally impressive discoveries and mentored a host of young men and women who followed in his footsteps. Richard Leakey first became interested himself in 1967 when he ...

Richard Leakey, paleoanthropologist, politician, explorer and environmentalist, gives a lecture on "Living Off the Grid" at the Wang Center at Stony Brook University in Stony Brook on Oct. 15, 2014.

Louis Leakey had a problem. During the summer of 1959 he and his wife Mary recovered the skull fragments of an early human scattered about the fossil deposits of Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania.