Mary Douglas Leakey, FBA (née Nicol, 6 February 1913 – 9 December 1996) was a British paleoanthropologist who discovered the first fossilised Proconsul skull, an extinct ape which is now believed to be ancestral to humans. She also discovered the robust Zinjanthropus skull at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, eastern Africa. For much of her career she worked with her husband, Louis Leakey, at Olduvai Gorge, where they uncovered fossils of ancient hominines and the earliest hominins, as well as the stone tools produced by the latter group. Mary Leakey developed a system for classifying the stone tools found at Olduvai. She discovered the Laetoli footprints, and at the Laetoli site she discovered hominin fossils that were more than 3.75 million years old.
During her career, Leakey discovered fifteen new species of animal. She also brought about the naming of a new genus.
In 1972, after the death of her husband, Leakey became director of excavations at Olduvai. She maintained the Leakey family tradition of palaeoanthropology by training her son, Richard, in the field.
Mary Douglas Leakey, FBA (née Nicol, 6 February 1913 – 9 December 1996) was a British paleoanthropologist who discovered the first fossilised Proconsul...
discoveries made at Olduvai Gorge with his wife, fellow palaeoanthropologist MaryLeakey. Having established a programme of palaeoanthropological inquiry in eastern...
Meave and Richard Leakey, married to Prince Emmanuel de Merode MaryLeakey (1913–1996), archaeologist; wife of Louis Leakey Meave Leakey (born 1942), palaeoanthropologist;...
Coryndon Museum, and MaryLeakey, director of the Leakey excavations at Olduvai, and his two brothers, Jonathan and Philip. The Leakey brothers had a very...
occupation. The British/Kenyan paleoanthropologist-archeologist team of Mary and Louis Leakey established excavation and research programs at Olduvai Gorge that...
forth. Classification of Oldowan tools is still somewhat contentious. MaryLeakey was the first to create a system to classify Oldowan assemblages, and...
wife Katy Leakey, he runs The Leakey Collection, a company exporting products made by Maasai handicrafts. His parents are Louis and MaryLeakey, both famous...
Princess Louise de Merode (née Leakey, born 21 March 1972) is a Kenyan paleontologist and anthropologist. She conducts research and field work on human...
Louis Leakey was born in Kabete. His nickname was Giteru and hence the reference Kabete gwa Giteru (Meaning Kabete, Giteru's place). The MaryLeakey High...
The holotype specimen, OH 5, was discovered by palaeoanthropologist MaryLeakey in 1959 at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania and described by her husband Louis...
Olduvai gorge. The location and tracks were discovered by archaeologist MaryLeakey and her team in 1976, and were excavated by 1978. Based on analysis of...
("Lucy") and the site AL 333 ("the First Family"). Beginning in 1974, MaryLeakey led an expedition into Laetoli, Tanzania, and notably recovered fossil...
Man (1963, 2nd ed. 1965) The Neolithic Age (1970) Leakey's Luck (1975) Leakey, Mary (1982). "Sonia Mary Cole". Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa...
Arundell Leakey, clergyman in England. He was a cousin of archaeologists Louis Leakey and Richard Leakey. Leakey's younger brother Rea Leakey served in...
Henrietta Wilfrida "Frida" Leakey (née Avern; 1902 – 19 August 1993), also known as H. Wilfrida Leakey, was a British teacher who discovered a gorge that...
Tanzania on the edge of the Olduvai Gorge. The museum was founded by MaryLeakey and is now under the jurisdiction of the Tanzanian government's Department...
general, and human evolution in particular, including fossil history). Leakey, Richard & Lewin, Roger. Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes us...
was first discovered in 1926 by Louis Leakey during excavations at the nearby Nakuru Burial Site, and MaryLeakey conducted the first major excavations...
scholars that attended the Pan African Congress, including Louis Leakey and MaryLeakey, who was delivering a pilot presentation of her typological analysis...
Olduvai Gorge. The first hominid skull in Olduvai Gorge was discovered by MaryLeakey in 1959, and named Zinj or Nutcracker Man, the first example of Paranthropus...
marriage to MaryLeakey, Leakey was half-brother to Richard, a conservationist, Philip, a politician, and Jonathan, a businessman. Many of the Leakey family...
called Leakey's Angels, is a name given to three women — Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Birutė Galdikas — chosen by anthropologist Louis Leakey to study...
paleoanthropologist MaryLeakey, Louis sent Goodall to Olduvai Gorge in Tanganyika (modern Tanzania), where he laid out his plans. In 1958, Leakey sent Goodall...
been discovered. The Leakey expedition of 1947–1948 to Rusinga Island in Lake Victoria uncovered more species of Proconsul. MaryLeakey made an especially...
extinct genus of dendropithecid primates. It was described by MaryLeakey and Richard Leakey in 1987, and the type species is S. enjiessi, which existed...
discovered on November 4, 1960 in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, by Jonathan and MaryLeakey. The remains are dated to approximately 1.75 million years, and consist...
Books). p. 114. ISBN 978-0-7538-1996-8. Dawkins (2005), p. 126. Morton, Mary. "Hominid vs. hominin". Earth Magazine. Retrieved 17 July 2017. Andrew Hill;...
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