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	Richard Leakey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Richard Erskine Frere Leakey (born 19 December 1944 in Nairobi, Kenya), is a paleontologist, archaeologist and conservationist.
		In 1989 Richard Leakey was appointed the head of the Kenyan Wildlife Service (KWS) 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.
		Richard Leakey, President Arap Moi and the KWS made the international news headlines when a stock pile of 12 tons of ivory was burned in 1989.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard_Leakey (647 words)

	Louis Leakey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		One of Leakey's greatest legacies stems from his role in fostering field research of primates in their natural habitats, which he understood as key to unraveling the mysteries of human evolution.
		Leakey touch chose three female researchers, later dubbed 'Leakey's Angels', who each went on to become giants in the field of primatology.
		Louis Leakey was married to Mary Leakey, who made perhaps the most important discovery in Palaeolithic archeology, the Laetoli footprints.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Louis_Leakey (358 words)

	Louise Leakey continues fossil quest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Leakey’s pioneering grandfather, who died the year she was born, was convinced after a series of important discoveries in East Africa that the continent was the cradle of humanity millions of years ago.
		Leakey is most interested in the period between 2 million and 1.5 million years ago when hominid fossil records show a lot of diversity in species and morphology.
		Leakey has inherited her family’s adventurous spirit and flies her own plane, a necessity because the Turkana Basin is a rugged, three-and-a half day drive from the Kenyan capital Nairobi and getting supplies in and out is a tedious process.
	www.msnbc.com /news/991581.asp (914 words)

	Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: Mary Leakey: Unearthing History -- Editors' Note: Mary ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Leakey is as famous for her precision, her love of strong tobacco--half coronas, preferably Dutch--and her short answers as she is for some of the most significant archaeological and anthropological finds of this century.
		Leakey first came to Kenya and Tanzania in 1935 with her husband, the paleontologist Louis Leakey, and except for forays to Europe and the U.S., she has been there ever since.
		Leakey was born in England, raised in large part in France and appears to have been independent, exacting and abhorrent of tradition from her very beginnings.
	sciam.com /article.cfm?articleID=0006E1CC-7860-1C76-9B81809EC588EF21 (821 words)

	A Science Odyssey: People and Discoveries: The Leakey family
		Louis Leakey died in 1972 of a heart attack.
		Through the following decades the Leakey family made significant fossil finds, rethought others, and sometimes disputed claims by other workers, such as Donald Johanson, who felt his fossil Lucy was of the same family as some of the Leakey's finds.
		The Leakey family has been remarkable in the sheer numbers of fossil and tool discoveries and the vast amount of data its members have contributed to the fields of paleontology and anthropology.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/aso/databank/entries/boleak.html (879 words)

	Louis Leakey - Discovering the Secrets of Humankind's Past
		Louis Leakey was born to be an archaeologist, for his childhood in Africa truly prepared him for the field life he would later lead.
		Despite intervening periods in which the Leakeys moved back to England, Louis grew up practically as a Kikuyu tribe member, and at the age of eleven he not only built his own traditional hut in which to live but was also initiated as a member of the Kikuyu tribe.
		On Leakey’s return, however, he found the iron markers he used to mark the spots where the skulls were found to be stolen, with only a photograph to show the area of the site.
	utexas.edu /courses/wilson/ant304/biography/arybios97/weimanbio.html (2514 words)

	Louis S.B. Leakey \| Anthropologist
		Leakey was largely responsible for convincing scientists that Africa was the most significant area to search for evidence of human origins.
		Leakey and other scientists named the species Homo Habilis and identified it as the earliest member of the genus of human beings.
		Leakey was buried in the country of his birth on October 4, 1972.
	www2.lucidcafe.com /lucidcafe/library/95aug/leakey.html (242 words)

	New Media Index - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Leakey is the fourth and final distinguished visiting scholar in the 2000-2001 series, which has featured N. Scott Momaday, Jonathan Miller and Roald Hoffmann.
		Leakey has a bachelor's degree in zoology and marine zoology and a doctorate degree in zoology from the University of North Wales.
		Leakey has focused her work in Kenya on fossils recovered from the Turkana Basin Research Project on the eastern side of Lake Turkana.
	index.truman.edu /issues/20002001/0329/news/scholar29.asp (593 words)

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		Leakey was the first white baby the Kikuyu had ever seen and he learned their language before he could understand English.
		He was secretly initiated as a member of the tribe at the age of thirteen and remained a champion of the Kikuyu (and an expert on their culture) for the rest of his life.
		Leakey was married to Mary Douglas Nicol in 1936.
	www.leakey.com /louis_leakey.htm (573 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: LEAKEY, TX
		Leakey, the county seat of Real County, is on the Frio River southwest of the confluence of the East and West branches at the intersection of Farm roads 336, 337, and 1120 and U.S. Highway 83, in the southeastern part of the county.
		Leakey remained county seat until 1891, when the government was moved to Rocksprings.
		In 1904 Leakey was estimated to have 318 residents, though this figure was down to 150 by 1926.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/LL/hll27.html (426 words)

	Virtual Exploration Society - Dian Fossey
		Leakey was by then one of the most well-known paleoanthropologists in the world.
		Leakey told Fossey that he believed long-term studies of the great apes were an important key to understanding the behavior of the primate fossils he'd been digging up.
		However, Leakey was less interested in her academic credentials than in her determination to see the job through until the end.
	www.unmuseum.org /fossey.htm (2530 words)

	Leakey Warns Of Mass Extinctions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Son of world famous palaeontologists Louis and Mary Leakey, Richard Leakey was director of the National Museums of Kenya from 1968 to 1989.
		It was not his own health but the health of the planet Leakey spoke of in Cape Town.
		Leakey said preserving land and conserving its wildlife are an "absolute necessity" and people have to decide exactly how much land should be allocated to conservation.
	www.rense.com /general13/leakey.htm (404 words)

	NPR : The Legacy of Louis Leakey
		Louis Leakey was born in Kenya and educated in England.
		Louise Leakey spent much of her childhood in the field with her paleoanthropologist parents, Meave and Richard Leakey.
		Richard Leakey, the son of Louis and Mary, explains the excitement that surrounded the find: "I think it was the association of the dates and the implements that fired public imagination.
	www.npr.org /programs/re/archivesdate/2003/aug/leakey (972 words)

	National Geographic News @ nationalgeographic.com
		In Kenya, a team headed by Meave Leakey and supported by the National Geographic Society recently discovered the remains of a 3.5 million-year-old skull of what appears to be a completely new species of early human ancestor.
		Leakey: I think…for a long time people have expected to see diversity going back in time—further than we had seen before.
		Leakey: The more answers we have, the more questions we have, and the more you find, the more questions you have.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2001/04/0417_leakeyinterview.html (815 words)

	Dr. Richard Leakey
		Richard Leakey by Chancellor Blanche Touhill at a Gala Dinner held at the Ritz Carlton in Clayton.
		Richard Leakey was born in Nairobi, Kenya on December 19, 1944, the son of Louis and Mary Leakey.
		Her 1995 discovery of an approximately 4-million-year-old skeleton in the Lake Turkana region is the oldest known specimen of a hominid that walked upright on two legs.
	www.umsl.edu /~biology/icte/WEArecipients/leakey.html (549 words)

	Royce Carlton - Meave Leakey Paleoanthropologist
		Dr. Meave Leakey is the standard-bearer of a family of paleoanthropologists who have dominated their field since the beginning of the 20th Century.
		Leakey’s field and lab work have established her as one of the most visible and distinguished scientists in a highly competitive and male-dominated profession.
		Dr. Leakey now co-directs the fieldwork in Lake Turkana with her daughter, Dr. Louise Leakey, focusing on the origins of our own genus Homo and the emergence of Homo erectus, the first human ancestor to move out of Africa.
	www.roycecarlton.com /speakers/leakey_m.html (441 words)

	Rocky Road: Louis Leakey
		Leakey couldn't be exactly certain just where he found the fossil, hence he couldn't get an exact date from the fossil beds.
		Leakey was often quick to name new species without much supporting fossil evidence, and controversy followed many of his interpretations.
		Leakey's career probably reached its lowest point, however, at the Calico dig site in the Mojave Desert; he believed evidence from the site could prove human habitation in the New World as much as 100,000 years ago.
	www.strangescience.net /lleakey.htm (710 words)

	Internet Obituary Network: Obituary for Mary Leakey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Mary Leakey, an archaeologist, died Monday, December 9, 1996 in Nairobi, Kenya.
		She discovered the skull of Proconsul Africanus, a human ancestor; she uncovered the skull of a hominid, Zinjanthroopus, in the Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania and found fossils of Homo habilis.
		Leakey discovered a trail of hominid footprints in Tanzania believed to be 3.6 million years old.
	obits.com /leakeyma.htm (118 words)

	CNN - Archeologist Mary Leakey dies at 83 - Dec. 9, 1996
		Leakey brought the world closer to understanding those mysteries with fossil discoveries in Tanzania and Kenya.
		In 1947 while working in Kenya, Leakey and her husband, archeologist Louis Leakey, discovered the skull of Proconsul africanus, an apelike ancestor of both apes and early humans that lived 25 million years ago.
		Leakey's son Richard Leakey, famous in his own right as a paleontologist and wildlife conservationist, said his mother died peacefully in Nairobi.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9612/09/leakey.obit (460 words)

	Origins Reconsidered : In Search of What Makes Us Human - Richard Leakey
		Refreshingly, Leakey presents the reader with the various scientific interpretations of the evidence rather than just his.
		Leakey's personal account of his fossil hunting and landmark discoveries at Lake Turkana, his reassessment of human prehistory based on new evidence and analytic techniques, and his profound pondering of how we became "human" and what being "human" really means.
		In 1984, Richard Leakey and his "Hominid Gang" of fossil hunters discovered fragments of a boy's skull that were more than 1.5 million years old.
	www.2think.org /or.shtml (672 words)

	Louis Leakey
		The son of a missionary in Kenya, Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey studied archaeology at Cambridge University from 1922 to 1926.
		Leakey was now looking for a woman to study chimpanzees in the wild and to find evidence of their close ancestry to humanity.
		Birute Galdikas, another of Leakey's monkey ladies (she lived with and studied orang-utans in Borneo) recalls visiting the Goodalls and finding 'the baron' to be 'distant, aloof and pre-occupied', although always 'poised and elegant' like a true aristocrat.
	www.ntz.info /gen/n00334.html (5324 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| Portrait: Richard Leakey
		The Leakey of their imagination is unimpeachable, whiter-than-white; and battling to whip the natives back into shape.
		Actually, Leakey's want of pigment - three score years in the African sun have left him speckled with skin cancers - is his least interesting quality.
		The atheist Leakey was "a man of determination and integrity," said Moi.
	www.guardian.co.uk /g2/story/0,3604,565776,00.html (1215 words)

	Louis Leakey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		At the end of WWII Leakey was a spy sent to collect information for the government.
		In June of 1947, Leakey began an excavation at Rusinga Island.
		In 1949 Leakey discovered the first Proconsul skull complete with a face; this was indeed a missing link between monkey and ape.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/information/biography/klmno/leakey_louis.html (422 words)

	Biographies: Louis Leakey
		Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey was born on August 7, 1903 at Kabete Mission, nine miles from Nairobi, Kenya.
		In 1941 he was made an honorary curator of the Coryndon Museum (later the Kenya National Museum), and in 1945 he accepted a poorly paid position as curator of the museum so that he could continue his paleontological and archaeological work in Kenya.
		The National Geographic magazine printed the first of many articles about the Leakeys and their finds, and gave a large amount of funding which allowed the Leakeys to greatly increase the scope of their excavations at Olduvai.
	www.talkorigins.org /faqs/homs/lleakey.html (1003 words)

	Rocky Road: Mary Leakey
		When Mary Leakey (originally Mary Nicol) was little, her artistic father took her to see ancient cave paintings in France, inspiring her interest in both art and early humans.
		By the time Louis Leakey died in 1972, he and Mary had effectively been separated for years, and she wasn't always on the friendliest terms with her sons, either.
		In 1996, Mary Leakey died at the age of 83.
	www.strangescience.net /leakey.htm (615 words)

	Amazon.com: The Origin of Humankind (Science Masters Series): Books: Richard Leakey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Leakey attempts to explain what he holds to be the four big evolutionary events, all foci of scientific disputation: the evolution of bipedal locomotion in apelike primates, proliferation of species of the human family (the hominids), expansion of the brain with the evolution of the genus Homo, and evolution of modern humans.
		Leakey dwells into subject areas that are not part of his profession and expertise such as neuroscience (cognition, intelligence, consciousness) and linguistics.
		Leakey does spend some time discussing the fossils and anatomy, though, which would be almost impossible to avoid in a book on physical anthropology, of course, but it's not the main emphasis of the book.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0465053130?v=glance (2934 words)

	Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey
		Leakey, Louis Seymour Bazett, 1903–72, British archaeologist and anthropologist of E Africa, b.
		Leakey, the son of missionary parents, grew up among the Kikuyu people of Kenya.
		Leakey was curator of the Coryndon Museum of Nairobi (1945–61), after which he did research and taught in Africa, England, and the United States.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0829154.html (138 words)

	Louis Leakey
		Along with his wife Mary Leakey he contributed groundbreaking theories and discoveries that radically altered our understanding of the path of human evolution.
		Unfortunately however, Leakey was not able to reliably identify the site of his finds, and Boswell's verification of the geological strata could be done.
		In 1972, Louis Leakey died in London at the age of 69.
	www.nndb.com /people/371/000094089 (1181 words)

	Leakey Texas Visitors Guide
		Leakey, the Real County seat since 1913, is an area of natural beauty with spectacular hill country views.
		John Leakey came to Texas in 1847, and he was considered one of the first white settlers in Frio Canyon in 1853.
		Whiskey Mountain Inn - Leakey, TX Their fully-furnished cabins with full kitchens are open year round for your enjoyment.
	www.leakey-tx.com (869 words)

	35 Who Made a Difference: Richard Leakey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		As a child, Richard Leakey spent many hours—too many, in his opinion—broiling in the sunbaked hills of western Kenya while his famous parents, Louis and Mary, picked away at fossils.
		Now 61, Leakey has the weathered look you'd expect of a man who has spent much of his life in the field and the manner of a man used to being in charge.
		After forming a new political party, Leakey was appointed a member of Parliament; then he forged alliances to rewrite Kenya's constitution and worked to introduce legislation concerning rights for the disabled.
	www.smithsonianmag.si.edu /smithsonian/issues05/nov05/35_leakey.html (763 words)

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