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Leakey and 7
* November 4-OH 7, first fragments of Homo habilis, discovered by Jonathan Leakey at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.
* KNM ER 406 is a small partial cranium discovered by Richard Leakey and H. Mutua in 1969, found at Koobi Fora, Kenya, which displays large zygomatic arches, and a cranial capacity of 510 cm³ ( circa 1. 7 mya ).
* 7 August: Louis Leakey

Leakey and August
On 8 August 2012, a team led by Meave Leakey announced the discovery of a face and two jawbones belonging to H. rudolfensis.
In August 2012, a team led by Meave Leakey published an academic paper in Nature announcing that three additional H. rudolfensis fossils from Northern Kenya had been found: two jawbones with teeth and a face.
* August 7-Louis Leakey ( died 1972 ), British archaeologist.

Leakey and 1903
* 1903 Louis Leakey, Kenyan-English archaeologist ( d. 1972 )
* October 1 Louis Leakey, British paleontologist ( b. 1903 )
* Louis Leakey ( 1903 1972 )
* October 1-Louis Leakey ( b. 1903 ), British paleontologist.
* Louis Leakey ( 1903 1972 ), Kenyan archaeologist and naturalist

Leakey and
* 1913 Mary Leakey, British anthropologist ( d. 1996 )
The oldest hominid fossils ever discovered in Tanzania also come from Laetoli and are the 3. 6 to 3. 8 million year old remains of Australopithecus afarensis — Louis Leakey had found what he thought was a baboon tooth at Laetoli in 1935 ( which was not identified as afarensis until 1979 ), a fragment of hominid jaw with three teeth was found there by Kohl-Larsen in 1938 39, and in 1974 75 Mary Leakey recovered 42 teeth and several jawbones from the site.
* February 6 Mary Leakey, British anthropologist ( d. 1996 )
* July 17 The first skull of Australopithecus is discovered by Louis Leakey and his wife Mary Leakey in the Olduvai Gorge of Tanzania.
* 1 February 2011 Present: Lieutenant-General David Leakey
* Mary Leakey ( 1913 1996 )
* Anthropologists Alan Walker and Richard Leakey in 1993 estimated the boy to have been about 11 12 years old based on known rates of bone maturity.
Mary Leakey ( 6 February 1913 9 December 1996 ) was a British archaeologist and anthropologist, who discovered the first fossilized Proconsul skull, an extinct ape now believed to be ancestral to humans, and also discovered the robust Zinjanthropus skull at Olduvai Gorge.
* Nigel Gray Leakey, ( 1913 1941 )
Nigel Gray Leakey VC ( 1 January 1913 19 May 1941 ) was a Kenyan recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
His experience with the gorillas, and a subsequent visit to Richard Leakey ’ s field-site on Lake Turkana, set Humphrey thinking about how cognitive skills intelligence and consciousness could have arisen as an adaption to social life.
* February 17 Two Ethiopian fossil skulls originally found in 1967 by Richard Leakey, Omo I and Omo II, are re-dated at 195, 000 years old, making them the oldest Homo Sapiens remains known.
* Morell, Virginia ( 1995 ) Ancestral Passions: The Leakey Family and the Quest for Humankind's Beginnings, Simon & Schuster, pp. 266 267.
* Caroline Leakey ( 1827 1881 ), English writer
* Mary Leakey ( 1913 1996 ), British archaeologist

Leakey and 1
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.
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.
The first hominid skull in Olduvai Gorge was discovered by Mary Leakey in 1959, and named Zinj or Nutcracker Man, the first example of Paranthropus boisei, and is thought to be over 1. 8 million years old.
Turkana Boy — discovered by Kamoya Kimeu, a member of the Leakeys ' team in 1984 — was the nearly complete skeleton of a Homo ergaster ( though some, including Leakey, call it erectus ) who died 1. 6 million years ago at about age 9-12.
Examples of hand axes first appeared 1. 6mya in the later Oldowan ( Mode I ), called the " developed Oldowan " by Mary Leakey, but became more abundant in mode II Acheulean industries that appear in what is now Southern Ethiopia around 1. 4 million years ago, although some of the best examples come from 1. 2 million year old deposits in Olduvai Gorge.
In 1941, during the East African Campaign, Sergeant Nigel Gray Leakey of the 1 / 6th Battalion was awarded the regiment's first and only Victoria Cross ( VC ).
Born on 1 January 1913 in Kiganjo, Kenya, Leakey was the son of Arundel Gray Leakey, a cousin of Louis Leakey.
* Nigel Gray Leakey ( cousin of Louis Leakey and sergeant in the 1 / 6 Battalion King's African Rifles )-Received during fighting on the Southern Front
First discovered by anthropologist Mary Leakey on July 17, 1959, at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, the well-preserved cranium ( nicknamed " Nutcracker Man ") was dated to 1. 75 million years old and had characteristics distinctive of the robust australopithecines.
* OH 5 Zinjanthropus, " Zinj " or " Nutcrackerman " was the first P. boisei specimen found by Mary Leakey at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania belonging to an adult male ( circa 1. 75 mya ).
Excavations at the site conducted by Richard Leakey and others have yielded a complete skeleton of a 1. 5-million-year-old elephant ( 1967 ), a new species of monkey ( 1969 ) and fossil remains of hominids from 1 to 2 million years ago.

Leakey and October
* October 1-Louis Leakey, archaeologist

Leakey and 1972
** Louis Leakey, British archaeologist ( d. 1972 )
Main Street, Leakey, 1972
Homo rudolfensis was a species of the genus Homo that is known only through a handful of representative fossils, the first of which was discovered by Bernard Ngeneo, a member of a team led by anthropologist Richard Leakey and zoologist Meave Leakey in 1972, at Koobi Fora on the east side of Lake Rudolf ( now Lake Turkana ) in Kenya.
Louis Leakey continued to visit the site several times a year and was connected with the project until his death in 1972.
* Louise Leakey ( b. 1972 ), Kenyan paleontologist

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