His breakthrough came in the 1950s and 60s, through excavations at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania. He worked with his second wife, Mary Leakey, and made discoveries such as the remains of Homo habilis ...

Working alongside his second wife, Mary Leakey, a distinguished archaeologist, Louis Leakey helped uncover a treasure trove of fossil remains and stone tools A palaeoanthropologist is being ...

Paleoanthropologist Louise Leakey, the granddaughter of Mary and Louis Leakey, who first determined that early humans evolved in Africa, presented a history of her family’s research in north ...

The research is a result of a project run by paleontologist Louise Leakey. Her grandparents, famed paleoanthropologists Louis and Mary Leakey, made the family renowned for finds at Olduvai Gorge in ...

Perhaps more than anything else, Mary Pope Hutson believes ... and Richard Leakey, a Kenyan conservationist and paleontologist who brought global awareness to animal poaching.

Mrs. Ples was discovered in 1947, when paleontologist Robert Broom accidentally ... an extremely robust australopithecine was discovered by Mary Leakey at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania.

The questions puzzled Yale Paleontologist Elwyn L ... pygmy-sized creature called Homo Habilis. Last week Leakey’s anthropologist wife, Mary, unveiled the most intact habilis skull ever found.

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. BBC Archive: This clip ...

habilis made its debut in the conversation of human origins in the early 1960s, after a series of landmark discoveries by anthropologists Louis S.B. Leakey and Mary Leakey ... In the words of ...

Found in Laetoli, a renowned archaeological site in northeastern Tanzania, the 14 newfound footprints add to a set of 70 tracks uncovered in 1978 by paleontologist Mary Leakey. In all, the tracks ...

Louise Leakey, granddaughter of Louis and Mary Leakey and herself a paleontologist still hunting and analyzing fossils in Kenya, told The Washington Post this week: “Kamoya was a gentle ...

Kimeu’s trajectory shifted when famous paleontologist Louis Leakey sought out Kenyan ... He seemed to have a knack for finding bones, so Leakey and his wife Mary took the time to teach him how to ...