They and their children (especially Richard and his wife Meave) became known as the first family of paleontology. Louis Leakey was born in 1903 in Kenya, where his English parents were missionaries.

“I was really lucky,” she says, “because Louis Leakey believed that women would ... you need to be very observant of relationships in the … family group or the tribe, because you want ...

The Leakeys are Kenya’s foremost anthropological family, whose story began with missionaries Canon Harry and Mary Leakey settling in Kabete where son Louis Leakey was born in 1903. Canon ...

Eventually, she had their complete trust and friendship, and considered them her family. Dian spent eighteen years on and off living among the gorillas. She continually risked her health ...

One of man’s earliest ancestors, says Anthropologist Louis Leakey, was a puny creature named Kenyapithecus africanus that inhabited the earth 20 million years ago. Bones that Leakey found in his ...

They and their children (especially Richard and his wife Meave) became known as the first family of paleontology. Louis Leakey was born in 1903 in Kenya, where his English parents were missionaries.