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 ( 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.

Leakey is located at ( 29. 725243 ,-99. 761463 ).

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.

That same year, the Texas State Legislature created Edwards County and designated Leakey as the county seat less than a year later.

Real County was created from parts of Edwards, Bandera, and Kerr counties in the spring of 1913, with Leakey as the county seat.

In 1891, the Edwards County seat was moved from Leakey to Rocksprings.

* 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 )

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.

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.

DeKalb budget shows county is on beam

That such expansion can be obtained without a raise in taxes is due to growth of the tax digest and sound fiscal planning on the part of the board of commissioners, headed by Chairman Charles O. Emmerich who is demonstrating that the public trust he was given was well placed, and other county officials.

And then there is St. Louis county, where the Democratic leadership has shown little appreciation of the need for sound zoning, of the important relationship between proper land use and economic growth.

He could no longer build anything, whether a private residence in his Pennsylvania county or a church in Brazil, without it being obvious that he had done it, and while here and there he was taken to task for again developing the same airy technique, they were such fanciful and sometimes even playful buildings that the public felt assured by its sense of recognition after a time, a quality of authentic uniqueness about them, which, once established by an artist as his private vision, is no longer disputable as to its other values.

And I have established that the action of municipal, county, or state school boards or boards of education is small, infinitesimally small in comparison with the number of districts.

Or is this subject a matter of self-determination, a matter of states rights or county rights??

The monthly cost of ADC to more than 100,000 recipients in the county is 4.4 million dollars, said C. Virgil Martin, president of Carson Pirie Scott & Co., committee chairman.

`` Actually, the abuse of the process may have constituted a contempt of the Criminal court of Cook county, altho vindication of the authority of that court is not the function of this court '', said Karns, who is a City judge in East St. Louis sitting in Cook County court.

Mrs. Greenfield is president of the Westfield Women's Republican Club and is a Westfield county committeewoman.

Although he pointed out that mandatory legislation impinging on home rule is basically distasteful, he added that the vital interest in election results transcended county lines.

Mr. Simpkins is a resident of Somerset county, and he and the Governor, also a Somerset countian, have been friends since Mr. Simpkins was a child.

It is the only county in the state so far this month reporting a possible shortage in GA category, for which emergency allotment can be given by the state if necessary.

The affidavit concludes in the standard format " sworn ( declared ) before me, of commissioner for oaths / solicitor, a commissioner for oaths ( solicitor ), on the at in the county / city of, and I know the deponent ( declarant )", and it is signed and stamped by the commissioner for oaths.

Thus at Mobile the annual mean is 67 ° F ( 19 ° C ), the mean for the summer 81 ° F ( 27 ° C ), and for the winter 52 ° F ( 11 ° C ); and at Valley Head, in De Kalb county, the annual mean is 59 ° F ( 15 ° C ), the mean for the summer 75 ° F ( 24 ° C ), and for the winter 41 ° F ( 5 ° C ).

The largest abalone recorded in California is 12. 34 inches, caught by John Pepper somewhere off the coast of Humboldt county in September 1993.

Ann Arbor is a city in the US state of Michigan and the county seat of Washtenaw County.

Angus () is one of the 32 local government council areas of Scotland, a registration county and a lieutenancy area.

Montrose in the north east of the county is notable for its tidal basin.

* California Penal Code Section 158: " Common barratry is the practice of exciting groundless judicial proceedings, and is punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months and by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($ 1, 000 ).

Boone is the county seat of Watauga County and the home of Appalachian State University.