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28 de abr. de 2014 · Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey (b. 1903–d. 1972) became a prominent paleoanthropologist during the mid-20th century primarily as a result of his excavations at Olduvai Gorge and other sites in East Africa. Leakey discovered the fossil remains of several new hominid species—most importantly Australopithecus ( Zinjanthropus) boisei and Homo ...
After Louis Leakey died of a heart attack in 1972, Mary Leakey continued working at Olduvai Gorge; however, the next spectacular find occurred in the Ethiopian part of the Great Rift Valley, at Afar. In 1974, Donald Johanson, an archaeologist from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, found parts of a skeleton there that dated back 3.2 million years — the oldest hominine bones ...
7 de ago. de 2021 · Louis Leakey ‘s work was important in establishing human evolutionary development in Africa, particularly through his discoveries in the Olduvai Gorge. We’ve already had posts about his wife Mary Leakey, as well as two other famous women, whose life is connected with Louis Leakey: Dian Fossey and Jane Goodall.
7 de ago. de 2003 · The Leakey family is synonymous with the search for the origins of humankind. The late Louis Leakey, born 100 years ago today, started a dynasty of fossil hunters who still explore the sediments ...
Richard Leakey (2015) Richard Erskine Frere Leakey (* 19.Dezember 1944 in Nairobi; † 2. Januar 2022 ebenda) war ein kenianischer Paläoanthropologe.Er gehörte zusammen mit seiner Frau Meave Leakey zu einer weltweit bekannten Familie bedeutender Paläoanthropologen und fand am Turkana-See u. a. fossile Schädel von Homo habilis und Homo erectus.
24 de abr. de 1998 · Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey was born on August 7, 1903 at Kabete Mission, nine miles from Nairobi, Kenya. His parents, Harry and Mary Leakey, were English missionaries to the Kikuyu tribe, and despite brief stays in England during his childhood, Louis grew up more African than English. He played with Africans, learned to hunt, spoke Kikuyu as ...
Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey Louis Leakey (b. 1903, d. 1972) was a tireless promoter of the study of human origins. With his theoretical and paleontological work in the field, he had a considerable impact on the science of early human evolution. In addition to the 20 books and over 150 articl
