The driving force in the east African researches was the Leakey family, with Louis Leakey and his wife Mary Leakey, and later their son Richard and daughter in-law Meave being among the most successful fossil hunters and palaeoanthropologists.

The fossil evidence was insufficient for Richard Leakey to resolve this debate.

* Leakey, Richard & Lewin, Roger.

One of the most famous and complete hominid skeletons ever discovered was the 1. 6 million year old Homo erectus known as the Turkana Boy which was found by Kamoya Kimeu in 1984 on an excavation led by Richard Leakey.

* Richard Leakey ( 1944-)

Richard Erskine Frere Leakey ( born 19 December 1944 in Nairobi ) is a politician, paleoanthropologist and conservationist.

As a small boy Richard lived in Nairobi with his parents, Louis Leakey, curator of the Coryndon Museum, and Mary Leakey, director of the Leakey excavations at Olduvai, and his two brothers, Jonathan and Philip.

Richard shifted away from paleontology in 1989, but his wife Meave Leakey and daughter Louise Leakey still continue paleontological research in Northern Kenya.

In 1989 Richard Leakey was appointed the head of the Wildlife Conservation and Management Department ( WMCD ) by President Daniel Arap Moi in response to the international outcry over the poaching of elephants and the impact it was having on the wildlife of Kenya.

Richard Leakey, President Arap Moi and the WMCD made the international news headlines when a stock pile of 12 tons of ivory was burned in 1989 in Nairobi National Park.

In 1993, a small propeller-driven plane piloted by Richard Leakey crashed, crushing his lower legs, both of which were later amputated.

In a few months Richard Leakey was walking again on artificial limbs.

Richard Leakey wrote about his experiences at the KWS in his book Wildlife Wars: My Battle to Save Kenya's Elephants ( 2001 ).

In May 1995 Richard Leakey joined some Kenyan intellectuals in launching a new political party-the Safina Party, which in Swahili means " Noah's Ark ".

If they won't, I want somebody else to do it ," announced Richard Leakey.

In 1999, Moi had to appoint Richard Leakey as Cabinet Secretary and overall head of the civil service at the insistence of international donor institutions as a pre-condition for the resumption of donor funds.

In 2004, Richard Leakey founded and chaired WildlifeDirect, a Kenya-based charitable organization.

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* 1903 – Louis Leakey, Kenyan-English archaeologist ( d. 1972 )

In 1994 Meave Leakey discovered Australopithecus anamensis, but the find was overshadowed by the news of Tim White's discovery of Ardipithecus ramidus, which pushed back the fossil record to.

One of the first known hominids, it was nicknamed ' handy man ' by discoverer Louis Leakey due to its association with stone tools.

* 1913 – Mary Leakey, British anthropologist ( d. 1996 )

He also befriended the archaeologist and practicing Pagan Alexander Keiller, known for his excavations at Avebury, who would encourage Gardner to join in with the excavations at Hembury Hill in Devon, also attended by Aileen Fox and Mary Leakey.

The discovery and description of this species is credited to both Mary and Louis Leakey, who found fossils in Tanzania, East Africa, between 1962 and 1964.

It was in 1929 that the first evidence of the presence of ancient early human ancestors in Kenya was discovered when Louis Leakey unearthed 1 million year old Acheulian hand axes at Kariandusi in south west Kenya.

In 1995 Meave Leakey named a new species of hominid Australopithecus anamensis following a series of fossil discoveries near Lake Turkana in 1965, 1987 and 1994, and is around 4. 1 million years old.

Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey ( L. S. B.

Leakey ) ( 7 August 1903 – 1 October 1972 ) was a British archaeologist and naturalist whose work was important in establishing human evolutionary development in Africa.

Leakey participated in national events of British East Africa and Kenya during the 1950s.

Leakey was also a devout Christian.

Replica of OH 5 | the skull sometimes known as " Nutcracker Man ", found by Mary Leakey.

One of the co-authors of the paper is Meave Leakey, the daughter-in-law of Mary and Louis Leakey.

As notable examples of this abuse, he quotes passages from the Examiner, `` that Destroyer of all things '', and The Character of Richard Steele, which he here attributes to Swift.

The countrywide success of `` Lazybones '' and `` And The Angels Sing '' could only lead to Hollywood, where, besides Harold Arlen, Mercer collaborated with Harry Warren, Jimmy Van Heusen, Richard Whiting, Walter Donaldson, Jerome Kern, and Arthur Schwartz.

Richard Peters, Secretary of the Board of War, thought Morgan was so extreme on the subject that he accused him of trying to pick a quarrel.

Under Fosdick the first executive officer of the CTCA was Richard Byrd, whose name in later years was to become synonymous with activities at the polar antipodes.

The hounds of hell search out their quarry in Apollo's sanctuary as they do in the tent of Richard 3.

Adrian Quiney wrote to his son Richard on October 29 and again perhaps the next day, since the bearer of the letter, the bailiff, was expected to reach London on November 1.

This seems to refer, not to the loan Richard had asked for, but to a proposed bargain with Shakespeare.

Richard Quiney the younger, a schoolboy of eleven, wrote a letter in Latin asking his father to buy copybooks ( `` chartaceos libellos ) '' ) for him and his brother.

The fourth name was ( John ) Milton of Christ's College, followed by ( Richard ) Manningham of Peterhouse, who matriculated 16 October 1624.

The fourteenth name was ( Richard ) Buckenham, written Buckman, admitted to Christ's College under Scott 2 July 1625.

Mr. Richard Preston, executive director of the New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission, in his remarks to the Governors Conference on Industrial Development at Providence on October 8, 1960, warned against the fallacy of attempting to attract industry solely to reduce the tax rate or to underwrite municipal services such as schools when he said: `` If this is the fundamental reason for a community's interest or if this is the basic approach, success if any will be difficult to obtain ''.

His proposal is opposed to that of Richard Nixon, Governor Rockefeller, past chairmen Strauss and McCone of the Atomic Energy Commission, Dr. Edward Teller and those others now enjoying their hour of triumph in the exacerbation of the cold war.

A British writer, Richard Haestier, in a book, Dead Men Tell Tales, recalls that in the turmoil preceding the French Revolution the body of Henry 4,, who had died nearly 180 years earlier, was torn to pieces by a mob.

The maneuvers were held `` in secret '' after a regional seminar for the Minutemen, held in nearby Shiloh, Ill., had been broken up the previous day by deputy sheriffs, who had arrested regional leader Richard Lauchli of Collinsville, Ill., and seized four operative weapons, including a Browning machine gun, two Browning automatic rifles and an M-4 rifle.

many of us in public relations were flattered that Richard L. Tobin chose to devote his editorial in the March 11 Communications Supplement to the merger of the Public Relations Society of America and the American Public Relations Association.

Richard Preston, executive director of the New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission, and Edwin C. Kepler of General Electric Company.

Richard S. Allen is the authority for the statement that the northern section was probably roofed by 1810.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan said, `` I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two ''.

Ten-year-old Richard Stewart had been irritable and quarrelsome for almost a year.

Richard Stewart is no special case.

Former Vice-President Richard M. Nixon in Detroit called for a firmer and tougher policy toward the Soviet Union.

-- James P. Mitchell and Sen. Walter H. Jones R-Bergen, last night disagreed on the value of using as a campaign issue a remark by Richard J. Hughes, Democratic gubernatorial candidate, that the GOP is `` Campaigning on the carcass of Eisenhower Republicanism ''.

`` I think that all Americans will resent deeply the statements made about President Eisenhower by Richard J. Hughes.

-- Richard J. Hughes made his Morris County debut in his bid for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination here last night with a pledge `` to carry the issues to every corner of the state ''.

City Finance Director Richard J. McConnell indorsed the higher fees, which, he said, had been under study for more than a year.