By examining fossils, Prof Fredrick Kyalo Manthi helps us understand how life on Earth has evolved over time. He is a leading Kenyan palaeontologist and the Director of Antiquities, Sites, and ...

In August 1998, a technician named Meave Leakey discovered a left upper jaw bone at Lomekwi west, near Lake Turkana in Kenya, ...

“What we’ve been focused on in our work is this story — on the upright, walking ancestral life of hominins” Leakey’s parents, Richard and Meave Leakey, were largely responsible for the ...

In a normal year the Chad fossil would have been the biggest hominid news. But 1995 was anything but a normal year. In August, Meave Leakey of the National Museums of Kenya and her colleagues made ...

“There are many parallels in the past” in terms of extreme environments, Louise Leakey, director of public education and outreach for the Turkana Basin Institute and Richard and Meave Leakey’s ...

Lucy McDowell, one of the producers of the “Search for the First Human” film, takes us behind the scenes on three shoots: the site in Kenya’s Tugen Hills where fossils belonging to Orrorin ...

“Instead the lion’s share of the credit for the discovery of the skeleton is given to Richard and Meave Leakey, for whom Kimeu was working at the time. Experienced and skilled field workers in Africa ...

In this archival image, Richard Leakey and Meave Epps examine fossils on a rocky hillside near the northeastern shore of Lake Turkana as they attempt to piece together an early hominid.

As team leader he naturally called himself Dr Leakey, though as a palaeontologist he was self-taught and chippy about his lack of academic credentials. It was his wife Meave whose diligence gave ...

Leakey, the renowned paleoanthropologist and ... At teatime, he was often found on his veranda, talking with his wife Meave, an accomplished paleoanthropologist who once worked at his primate ...

Mr. Leakey’s first marriage, to Margaret Cropper, ended in divorce. Survivors include his wife since 1970, the former Meave Epps, a paleoanthropologist who has made significant discoveries of ...