As luck would have it, she was invited to interview with Louis Leakey to care for his colony ... includes brief details about Meave’s life with husband, Richard, such as when he lost both ...

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

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.

an eco-friendly African handicraft export company with artist wife Katy Leakey. Dr Meave Leakey: Richard’s wife, headed the palaeontology department at the National Museums of Kenya and is ...

By Steve Brusatte FOSSIL MEN The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind By Kermit Pattison THE SEDIMENTS OF TIME My Lifelong Search for the Past By Meave Leakey with Samira ...

Dated to between 1.78 million and 1.95 million years ago, the remains were uncovered within six miles (ten kilometers) of the 1972 skull, which was discovered by Meave Leakey's husband ...

She’s the daughter of Richard and Meave Leakey, whose fossil-hunting team found Turkana Boy, a famed Homo erectus skeleton that’s the jewel of the museum’s collection. Their work—and now ...

His wife Meave discovered important new fossils, but no Leakey heir had stepped forward. Richard's daughter Louise was studying in England, and hesitant about taking up the family trade.

But Meave Leakey and colleagues report in this week's journal Nature that the new species, named Kenyanthropus platyops, Greek for "flat-faced man of Kenya," lived at the same time as Lucy's species.

It is of a human ancestor like no other. DR MEAVE LEAKEY (National Museum of Kenya): We didn't realise how different it was until we began comparing in the, in the museum and that was a very ...

It is of a human ancestor like no other. DR MEAVE LEAKEY (National Museum of Kenya): We didn't realise how different it was until we began comparing in the, in the museum and that was a very ...