Meave Leakey holding the medal of the City of Toulouse
Born
Maeve Epps
(1942-07-28) 28 July 1942 (age 81)
London, England
Alma mater
University of North Wales
Spouse
Richard Leakey
(m. 1970; died 2022)
Children
2, including Louise Leakey
Scientific career
Fields
Paleoanthropology
Institutions
Stony Brook University Turkana Basin Institute
Meave G. Leakey (born Meave Epps; 28 July 1942) is a British palaeoanthropologist. She works at Stony Brook University and is co-ordinator of Plio-Pleistocene research at the Turkana Basin Institute. She studies early hominid evolution and has done extensive field research in the Turkana Basin. She has Doctor of Philosophy[1] and Doctor of Science[2] degrees.
^"Bios: Meave Leakey". Retrieved 21 November 2014.
^"Honorary Graduates". UCL. Archived from the original on 12 August 2016. Retrieved 21 November 2014.
Meave G. Leakey (born Meave Epps; 28 July 1942) is a British palaeoanthropologist. She works at Stony Brook University and is co-ordinator of Plio-Pleistocene...
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called Kalodirr in northern Kenya in 1986 and named by Richard Leakey and MeaveLeakey. The estimated age of Afropithecus is between 16 and 18 million...
authority on beans. Colin Leakey was the son of Louis Leakey (1903–1972), the pioneering paleoanthropologist, and Frida (Avern) Leakey, of Newnham College,...
correlation data. In 1994, the London-born Kenyan paleoanthropologist MeaveLeakey and archaeologist Alan Walker excavated the Allia Bay site and uncovered...
discovered by MeaveLeakey in 1994 date to around 4 million years ago, setting the beginning date of bipedalism back half a million years. Richard Leakey has led...
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and Kenya. The largest species, Cercopithecoides kimeui, was named by MeaveLeakey in 1982, based on fossils found in Kenya and Tanzania. "Fossilworks:...
Sibiloi National Park. Sites were initially excavated by Richard Leakey, MeaveLeakey, Jack Harris, Glynn Isaac and others. Currently the artifacts found...
Jonathan Leakey, and half-brother to Colin Leakey. His children by his second wife, Valerie Fraser Leakey, are Lara Fraser Leakey, Kyela Fraser Leakey, and...
Lake Turkana, overseen by prominent paleoanthropologists Louise and MeaveLeakey. In August 1999 at the Lomekwi site, research assistant Justus Erus discovered...
classification as H. rudolfensis. In 2012, British palaeoanthropologist MeaveLeakey described the juvenile partial face KNM-ER 62000 discovered in Koobi...
form of Proconsul by C.T. Madden in 1980, but after a re-examination by MeaveLeakey and associates later, the fossils were moved under a new genus Kamoyapithecus...
carried out by the Leakey family, with Louis Leakey and his wife Mary Leakey, and later their son Richard and daughter-in-law Meave, fossil hunters and...
general, and human evolution in particular, including fossil history). Leakey, Richard & Lewin, Roger. Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes us...
paleontologist Mary Leakey (1913–1996), paleoanthropologist MeaveLeakey (born 1942), paleontologist Richard Leakey (1944–2022), paleontologist and archaeologist John...
Geographic Society Press Room". Archived from the original on June 11, 2015. "MeaveLeakey and Nainoa Thompson to Receive Hubbard Medal, National Geographic's Highest...
afarensis. Notable people with findings at Allia Bay include: Richard Leakey, MeaveLeakey, Craig Feibel, Ian McDougall, Alan Walker. The geographic coordinates...
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original on 2011-07-28. Leakey, Meave G.; Harris, John M. (2003-01-23). Lothagam : the dawn of humanity in eastern Africa. Leakey, Meave G.,, Harris, John Michael...
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