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7 de ago. de 2021 · Louis Leakey ‘s work was important in establishing human evolutionary development in Africa, particularly through his discoveries in the Olduvai Gorge. We’ve already had posts about his wife Mary Leakey, as well as two other famous women, whose life is connected with Louis Leakey: Dian Fossey and Jane Goodall.
Mary Douglas Leakey, nacida como Mary Douglas Nicol y conocida como Mary Leakey (Londres, Inglaterra; 6 de febrero de 1913-Nairobi, Kenia; 9 de diciembre de 1996), fue una antropóloga británica, que, junto con otros, descubrió el primer cráneo de un simio fósil en la Isla Rusinga.Durante gran parte de su carrera, trabajó con su esposo Louis Leakey en la garganta de Olduvai, descubriendo ...
Louis Leakey. Paleontólogo, etnólogo e antropólogo físico britânico-queniano, Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey nasceu em 1903, no Quénia (em Kabete). Cresceu entre os Quicuios, tribo junto da qual estavam destacados os seus pais, que trabalhavam como missionários. Depois de concluir os estudos em Inglaterra, voltou a África oriental para uma ...
Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey (7 Agustus 1903 – 1 Oktober 1972), juga dikenal sebagai L. S. B. Leakey, adalah seorang ahli paleoantropologi Kenya dan arkeolog yang sangat penting dalam menunjukkan bahwa manusia berevolusi di Afrika, ...
Richard Leakey (2015) Richard Erskine Frere Leakey (* 19.Dezember 1944 in Nairobi; † 2. Januar 2022 ebenda) war ein kenianischer Paläoanthropologe.Er gehörte zusammen mit seiner Frau Meave Leakey zu einer weltweit bekannten Familie bedeutender Paläoanthropologen und fand am Turkana-See u. a. fossile Schädel von Homo habilis und Homo erectus.
After Louis Leakey died of a heart attack in 1972, Mary Leakey continued working at Olduvai Gorge; however, the next spectacular find occurred in the Ethiopian part of the Great Rift Valley, at Afar. In 1974, Donald Johanson, an archaeologist from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, found parts of a skeleton there that dated back 3.2 million years — the oldest hominine bones ...
24 de abr. de 1998 · Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey was born on August 7, 1903 at Kabete Mission, nine miles from Nairobi, Kenya. His parents, Harry and Mary Leakey, were English missionaries to the Kikuyu tribe, and despite brief stays in England during his childhood, Louis grew up more African than English. He played with Africans, learned to hunt, spoke Kikuyu as ...
