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.

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

* July 17 – The first skull of Australopithecus is discovered by Louis Leakey and his wife Mary Leakey in the Olduvai Gorge of Tanzania.

The county seat is Leakey.

The Alto Frio Baptist Encampment is located in an isolated area of Real County southeast of Leakey.

Leakey is the county seat.

Leakey ( pronounced Lay-key ) is a city in and the county seat of Real County, Texas, United States.

The city is named for John H. Leakey ( 1824-1900 ), a pioneer former Tennessee.

Public education in the city of Leakey is provided by the Leakey Independent School District.

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

He is second of the three sons of the archaeologists Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey, and is the younger brother of Colin Leakey.

Leakey stated in his autobiography that he is an atheist.

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.

Leakey is a small, undistinguished lunar impact crater that is located in an area of rough terrain in the eastern part of the Moon.

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.

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.

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.

Paranthropus boisei was discovered by Mary Leakey on July 17, 1959, at the FLK Bed I site of Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania ( specimen OH 5 ).

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.

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.

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.

Leakey and Donald Johanson were at the time considered to be the most famous palaeoanthoropologists, and scientifically their views on human evolution were differing, a scientific rivalry that gained public attention.

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.

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.

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

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

It was at the FLK ( Frida Leakey Korongo site named after Louis ' first wife ) in 1959 that Mary found remains of the robust australopithecine Zinjanthropus boisei ( now known as Paranthropus boisei ).

The label Abbevillian prevailed until the Leakey family discovered older ( yet similar ) artifacts at Olduvai Gorge ( a. k. a. Oldupai Gorge ) and promoted the African origin of man.

The skeleton was discovered in 1984 by Kamoya Kimeu, a member of a team led by Richard Leakey, at Nariokotome near Lake Turkana in Kenya.

* Excavations begin at the neolithic site of Hyrax Hill, Kenya, by Mary Leakey ( continues until 1938 ).

* Louis and Mary Leakey discover the neolithic site at Hyrax Hill, Kenya.

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

* Leakey, Richard.

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.

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.

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

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

* Leakey, Richard & Lewin, Roger.

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

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.

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.