The Leakey boys participated in games conducted by both adults and children, in which they tried to imitate early humans, catching springhares and small antelope by hand on the Serengeti.

Many scientists of various disciplines have participated in research there, but the initial sites were excavated by Richard Leakey and his wife, Meave, Jack Harris, Glynn Isaac and a few others.

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

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

* February 6 – Mary Leakey, British anthropologist ( d. 1996 )

** Mary Leakey, British archaeologist ( b. 1913 )

** Louis Leakey, British archaeologist ( d. 1972 )

* October 1 – Louis Leakey, British paleontologist ( b. 1903 )

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.

* August 7-Louis Leakey ( died 1972 ), British archaeologist.

* October 1-Louis Leakey ( b. 1903 ), British paleontologist.

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 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.

* British Major General David Leakey, 2 December 2004 6 December 2005

Lieutenant-General Arundell David Leakey CMG, CBE ( born 1952 ) is a former British military commander.

On 5 December 1997, Leakey was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire " in recognition of gallant and distinguished services in former Yugoslavia during the period 21st December 1996 to 20th June 1997 ".

In 1959 Louis Leakey, while at the British Museum of Natural History in London, received a visit from Ruth DeEtte Simpson, an archaeologist from California.

* David Leakey ( b. 1952 ), British military general

* Mary Leakey ( 1913 – 1996 ), British archaeologist

* Louise Leakey ( b. 1977 ), British Artist / Writer

* Matt Leakey ( b. 1980 ), British Automotive Engineer

* Meave Leakey ( b. 1942 ), British paleontologist

* Phil Leakey ( 1908 – 1992 ), British make-up artist

* Rea Leakey, British military tank commander, co-inventor of the Coles Universal Sun Compass

* December 9-Mary Leakey, British archaeologist and anthropologist ( b. 1913 ).

* Mary Leakey, British anthropologist ( born Mary Douglas Nicol )

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 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 ).

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

Mary and her husband Louis Leakey classified the find as Zinjanthropus boisei: " Zinj " for the medieval East African region of Zanj, " anthropus " ( Gr. ανθρωπος ) meaning ' man ' ( human ); and " boisei " for Charles Boise ( the anthropologists team ’ s funder at the time ).

A joint publication of Wilfrid Le Gros Clark and Louis Leakey in 1951, " The Miocene Hominoidea of East Africa ", first defines Proconsul nyanzae.

Louis Leakey provided something of an answer by proving that man evolved in Africa.

More importantly in 1931 Louis Leakey discovered older more primitive stone tools in Olduvai Gorge — these were the first examples of the oldest human technology ever discovered in Africa, subsequently known throughout the world as Oldowan after Olduvai Gorge.

According to Leakey et al., " the new fossils confirm the presence of two contemporary species of early Homo is, habilis and rudolfensis, in addition to Homo erectus, in the early Pleistocene of eastern Africa ".

In the 1930s, as Mary and Louis Leakey searched for earliest stone tools in east Africa, many people were skeptical that Africa was the place that humans evolved.

The Oldowan industry is named after discoveries made in the Olduvai Gorge of Tanzania in east Africa by the Leakey family, primarily Mary Leakey, but also her husband Louis and their son, Richard.

* Lothagam: The Dawn of Humanity in Eastern Africa by John Harris and Meave Leakey, Eds.

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.

** Louis Leakey announces the discovery of pre-human fossils in Kenya ; he names the species Kenyapithecus africanus.

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.

The department was replaced by Kenya Wildlife Service ( KWS ) in 1990, and Leakey became its first chairman.

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.

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.

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.

More recently, Meave Leakey discovered a 3, 500, 000-year-old skull there, named Kenyanthropus platyops, which means " The Flat-Faced Man of 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.

Born on 1 January 1913 in Kiganjo, Kenya, Leakey was the son of Arundel Gray Leakey, a cousin of Louis Leakey.

The story of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi has been recorded by various writers throughout the Gĩkũyũ history ; notable among them are Jomo Kenyatta, the first president of independent Kenya, Louis Leakey and the prolific Gĩkũyũ writer Gakaara wa Wanjaũ and another Gĩkũyũ writer known as Mathew Njoroge Kabetũ among many others.

* Stratigraphy and Paleontology of Pliocene and Pleistocene Localities West of Lake Turkana, Kenya by John Harris, Meave Leakey, Eds.

Prof. Antony Flew ( UK ), Tom Flynn ( USA ), Jim Herrick ( UK ), Christopher Hitchens ( USA ), Ellen Johnson ( USA ), Prof. Paul Kurtz ( USA ), Lavanam ( India ), Dr. Richard Leakey ( Kenya ), Iain Middleton ( New Zealand ), Dr. Henry Morgentaler ( Canada ), Dr. Taslima Nasreen ( Bangladesh ), Steinar Nilsen ( Norway ), Prof. Jean-Claude Pecker ( France ), James Randi ( USA ), Prof. Ajoy Roy ( Bangladesh ), Dr. Younus Shaikh ( Pakistan ), Dr. G N Jyoti Shankar ( deceased, USA ), Barbara Smoker ( UK ), Richard Stallman ( USA ), Prof.

Walker was a member of the team led by Richard Leakey responsible for the 1984 discovery the skeleton of the so-called Turkana Boy, and 1985 Walker himself discovered the Black Skull near Lake Turkana in Kenya.

* 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 ).

* Turkana Boy is found in Kenya by team led by Richard Leakey.