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.

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 ...

“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 ...

Richard Leakey's life was a life of ironies and contrasts; a form two drop-out who became a CEO of a public institution and world-famous paleoanthropologist; a man who lost his vital organs but ...

Stephen Sackur talks to Richard Leakey, the Chairman of the Kenya Wildlife Service. Africa's wildlife is one of the wonders of the natural world, but the fate of the continent's elephants ...