Meave G. Leakey (born Meave Epps; 28 July 1942) is a British palaeoanthropologist. She works at Stony Brook University and is co-ordinator of Plio-Pleistocene research at the Turkana Basin Institute.

Meave G. Leakey, British paleoanthropologist who was part of a family that gained renown for decades of pioneering hominin research in Africa. She notably was involved in the discovery of a 3.5-million-year-old skull that belonged to a previously unknown hominin genus and species, Kenyanthropus platyops.

Dr. Meave Leakey was born Meave Epps in 1942 in London. As a child, she attended convent and boarding schools. She later attended the University of North Wales, where she earned a joint honours in Zoology and Marine Zoology. Her ambition at that …

For nearly 50 years, Meave Leakey has worked to uncover the story of human evolution in Kenya’s Turkana Basin. Her extensive research has added significantly to our understanding of human origins and to the long legacy of the Leakey family.

Meave G. Leakey PhD DSc (hon) is a renowned paleontologist who studies the origin of mankind in West Africa. She was born Meave Epps, 28 July 1942 in London, and was married to Richard Leakey, the son of Louis and Mary Leakey. She is a research professor at Stony Brook University. They have two children, Louise (born 1972) and Samira (born 1974).

She is a paleontologist and re search professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and is the director of Plio-Pleistocene research for the Turkana Basin Institute in Nariobi, Kenya. Growing up in Kent County, England, Meave …

Adding to our understanding of human origins is the life's work of National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Meave Leakey, as she continues her family's legacy of uncovering fossils of...

Jan 7, 2021 · Meave Leakey has been on the front lines of evolutionary research for the better part of five decades, and she delves into that past in her new memoir, The Sediments of Time: My Lifelong Search for the Past.

She is a paleontologist known for her work in the Turkana Basin, northern Kenya where her field teams have uncovered numerous fossils of human ancestors as well as a diversity of ancient vertebrates. Several of these fossils represent new species …

Meave G Leakey Afropithecus turkanensis, a 17-17.5 million year old large-bodied hominoid from Kenya, has previously been reported to be the oldest known thick-enamelled Miocene ape.