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.

Those DNA ancestry tests so many people are having done might not tell you what Richard Leakey says is really true: Our deepest roots reach to Africa. Everything else is just a franchise. Leakey, born ...

Richard Leakey, a member a renowned family of fossil ... Survivors include his wife since 1970, the former Meave Epps, a paleoanthropologist who has made significant discoveries of her own ...

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

Son of Louis B. and Mary Leakey, Richard Leakey, with his wife, Meave, and daughter, Louise, has worked toward a greater understanding of the origins and making of mankind. They have been credited ...

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.

Now, Meave and Richard’s daughter Louise carries on the research. Meave Leakey tells her extraordinary life story in “The Sediments of Time: My Lifelong Search for the Past.” Co-written with ...

Richard Leakey was 6 ... with his wife, the paleontologist Meave Leakey, helped finance the education of numerous Kenyan graduate students. When I met up with him, Leakey was passing through ...

Richard Leakey often said the things he liked doing ... In 1969, Leakey (and his new wife, Meave) launched the first full-scale expedition to the eastern shore of Lake Turkana.

“Richard Leakey just passed away at his home in Kona ... At teatime, he was often found on his veranda, talking with his wife Meave, an accomplished paleoanthropologist who once worked at ...

Richard Erskine Frere Leakey was born in Nairobi ... He is survived by his wife, Meave Leakey, herself a renowned paleoanthropologist; their daughters, Louise and Samira; a daughter, Anna, from ...

Richard Leakey was 6 ... with his wife, the paleontologist Meave Leakey, helped finance the education of numerous Kenyan graduate students. When I met up with him, Leakey was passing through ...