Meave Leakey is a real-life Indiana Jones. Her life has been filled with adventure, struggle, and discovery after amazing discovery that are detailed in her riveting autobiography, The Sediments ...

U.S./World; Modern humans evolved from many branches, research suggests. Updated: ; Aug. 08, 2012, 5:12 p.m. | Published: ; Aug. 08, 2012, 4:12 p.m.

MEAVE LEAKEY: Well, I think, yes, it definitely is a good boost for morale and helps to be more positive, because it takes a long time to find something like this. And I mean, ...

Leakey suggested that it was not much taller than a modern chimpanzee and may have weighed as much as 55 pounds. Its brain may have been no larger than that of an ape.

MEAVE LEAKEY: One of the things we learnt looking at the fossil record like this and, and looking back in time, the fact that we're here today is really very much a chance event and we were part ...

The discovery by Meave Leakey, ... But Leakey's find suggests those two earlier species lived side-by-side about 1.5 million years ago in parts of Kenya for at least half a million years.

A team of paleontologists led by Meave Leakey has found some facial bones coming from one creature and jawbones from two others in a Kenyan dig. The fossils go back almost 2,000,000 years, and the ...

MEAVE LEAKEY: One of the things we learnt looking at the fossil record like this and, and looking back in time, the fact that we're here today is really very much a chance event and we were part ...

Louise's parents, Richard and Meave Leakey, continued the family's fieldwork, especially at Turkana Basin. It was in 1968 that Richard Leakey set up an expedition in northern Kenya, she said.