The Leakey family is synonymous with the search for the origins of humankind. The late Louis Leakey, born 100 years ago today, started a dynasty of fossil hunters who still explore the sediments ...

A blue plaque will be installed at the former home of Louis Leakey in High Street, Foxton, Cambridgeshire. Dr Leakey established that the origins and evolution of mankind began in Africa ...

When Louis Leakey and Mary Nicol first met ... He dropped out of high school to lead photo safaris in the early 1960s. But by 1963 he was leading a team to a dig in (now) Tanzania, where they ...

Louis Leakey was not the first person to ever find an ancient hominid fossil. But more than anyone else, he promoted and popularized the study of human evolution. His work spurred others to go to ...

To settle this discrepancy Leakey appealed to the stone tools that had led him to his conclusions about Zinj. In a lecture presented to the South African Archaeological Society in 1960 Louis ...

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 ...

When Louis Leakey and Mary Nicol first met ... He dropped out of high school to lead photo safaris in the early 1960s. But by 1963 he was leading a team to a dig in (now) Tanzania, where they ...

The skull of Paranthropus boisei (“Zinj,” “Dear Boy,” “Nutcracker Man,” etc.). Louis Leakey had a problem. During the summer of 1959 he and his wife Mary recovered the skull fragments ...