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.

The family of Proconsulidae was first proposed by Louis Leakey in 1962, eleven years after he and Wilfrid Le Gros Clark had defined africanus, nyanzae and major.

In 1958, Leakey sent Goodall to London to study primate behavior with Osman Hill and primate anatomy with John Napier.

* Leakey's Angels, three primatologists sent by Louis Leakey to study primates in their natural environment

Leakey raised funds, and on 14 July 1960 Goodall went to Gombe Stream National Park becoming the first of " Leakey's Angels ".

With the support of renowned anthropologist Louis Leakey, Goodall set up a small research station in Gombe Stream in hopes of learning more about the behavior of our closest relatives.

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.

Once seriously questioned, the intermediates did not wait for the next Pan African Congress two years hence, but were officially rejected in 1965 ( again on an advisory basis ) by Burg Wartenstein Conference # 29, Systematic Investigation of the African Later Tertiary and Quarternary, a prestigious conference in anthropology held by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, at Burg Wartenstein Castle, which it then owned in Austria, attended by the same key scholars that attended the Pan African Congress, including Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey, who was delivering a pilot presentation of her typological analysis of Early Stone Age tools, to be included in her 1971 contribution to Olduvai Gorge, " Excavations in Beds I and II, 1960-1963.

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.

The official British explanation of the revolt did not include the insights of agrarian and agricultural experts, of economists and historians, or even of Europeans who had spent a long period living amongst the Kikuyu such as Louis Leakey.

The building was the home of Minehead ’ s famous Whistling Ghost-Old Mother Leakey, who died in 1634.

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.

Through Gertrude, Mary met Louis Leakey, who was in need of an illustrator for his book, Adam's Ancestors.

Mary died on 9 December 1996 at the age of 83, a renowned palaeoanthropologist, who had not only conducted significant research of her own, but had been invaluable to the research careers of her husband Louis Leakey and their sons Richard, Philip and Jonathan.

Laetoli was first recognized by western science in 1935 through a man named Sanimu — who convinced archeologist Louis Leakey to investigate the area.

The archaeologist Jeffrey Goodman who worked at the site with Leakey had also claimed the stone artifacts to be human made.

He succeeded Lieutenant General David Leakey ( 2007-2010 ), who succeeded FR Lieutenant General Jean-Paul Perruche ( 2004-2007 ).

The paleontologist Louis Leakey, who was one of the foremost fossil-hunters of the 20th century and a champion of evolution, said:

Acheulian stone tools were found there by Louis Leakey in 1931, after he had correctly identified the rocks brought back by Hans Reck to Germany from his 1913 Olduvai expedition as stone tools.

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.

In 1902, the school in Leakey had a total enrollment of 102 students.

The Leakey brothers had a very active childhood.

The Leakey boys had several nannies like their father before them.

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.

Leakey had an open scientific rivalry with Donald Johanson during the 1980s.

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.

Hopwood in 1931 had discovered the fossils of three individuals while expeditioning with Louis Leakey in the vicinity of Lake Victoria.

Simpson had acquired what looked like ancient scrapers from a site in the Calico Hills and showed it to Leakey.

Excavations at the site carried out by Leakey and Simpson revealed that they had located stone artifacts which were dated 100, 000 years or older suggesting a human presence in North America much earlier than estimated.

The geologist Vance Haynes had made three visits to the site in 1973 and had claimed that the artifacts of Leakey were naturally formed geofacts.

In her autobiography Mary Leakey wrote that because of Louis's involvement with the Calico Hills site that she had lost academic respect for him and that the Calico excavations was " catastrophic to his professional career and was largely responsible for the parting of our ways ".

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.

Leakey suggested that A. turkanensis shared postcranial features with the species Prosconsul nyanzae, which is the best known genus Miocene with literally hundreds of fossils having been found representing almost all skeletal elements, and sharing cranial features with Aegyptopithecus zeuxis and dental features with Heliopithecus which had two weathered molars that indicated a general distinction from known large early catarrhines, and later concluded that A. turkenensis was a primitive, arboreal quadruped similar to P. nyanzae, and that A. turkanensis had primitive facial morphology and derived dental characteristics that would suggest a diet of hard fruits.

From there, she obtained work as a secretary, and acting on her friend's advice she telephoned Louis Leakey, a Kenyan archaeologist and paleontologist, with no other thought than to make an appointment to discuss animals.

Leakey has no known grave but he is commemorated on the East Africa Memorial, near Nairobi, Kenya.

Universal fought hard to prevent Hammer from duplicating aspects of their 1931 film, and so it was down to make-up artist Phil Leakey to design a new-look creature bearing no resemblance to the Boris Karloff original created by Jack Pierce.

* Leakey, M. D., 1971: Olduvai Gorge Volume 3, Excavations in Beds I & II 1960-1963, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Leakey joined the Department of Anthropology faculty at Stony Brook University, New York in 2002.

This culminated at the Cronkite's Universe talk show hosted by Walter Cronkite in New York in 1981, where Leakey and Johanson held a fierce debate on live TV show.

The term " Oldowan " is taken from the site of Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, where the first Oldowan tools were discovered by the archaeologist Louis Leakey in the 1930s.

For much of her career she worked together with her husband, Louis Leakey, in Olduvai Gorge, uncovering the tools and fossils of ancient hominines.

After the death of her husband she became a leading palaeoanthropologist, helping to establish the Leakey tradition by training her son, Richard, in the field.

Leakey served her apprenticeship in archaeology under Dorothy Liddell at Hembury in Devon, England, 1930-1934, for whom she also did illustrations.

It was there, as a graduate student, she first met famed Kenyan paleontologist Louis Leakey and expressed her desire to study orangutans in their natural habitats.

When she arrived in Borneo, Galdikas settled into a primitive bark and thatch hut, at a site she dubbed Camp Leakey, near the edge of the Java Sea.

Tuttle was enlisted by Mary Leakey to analyze the 3. 4 million-year-old footprints she discovered in Laetoli, Tanzania.