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	Louis Leakey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Louis called it "Zinj" and displayed it at the fourth Pan African Congress, this new skeleton was eventually named Australopithecus boisei.
		Leakey's achievements were many but overall he revolutionized and proved that mankind descended from and have evolved from Africa.
		Louis Leakey died in 1972 of a heart attack at age 69.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/information/biography/klmno/leakey_louis.html (452 words)

	Louis Leakey
		Louis Leakey (1903-1972) was a British archaeologist whose work was important in establishing man's development in Africa.
		Louis Leakey died of a heart attack in 1972 at the age of 69.
		Leakey's cousin, Rea Leakey, was a British tank commander during World War II.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/lo/Louis_Leakey.html (115 words)

	Louis Leakey - MSN Encarta
		Louis Leakey (1903-1972), British-Kenyan paleoanthropologist noted for his discoveries of fossil remains that greatly advanced the study of human evolution.
		Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey was born in Kabete, Kenya, the son of English missionary parents, and raised among the Kikuyu people; he later wrote a definitive study of their culture.
		Leakey was educated at the University of Cambridge, where he eventually earned a doctorate in anthropology.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761553411/Louis_Leakey.html (295 words)

	Louis Leakey Relationships: His Attitude (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Louis wants to live passionately and intensely and is not averse to challenge, danger, or to facing the darker side of life - human pain and struggle.
		Leakey approaches life very instinctively and is not always fully conscious of why he feels or acts the way he does.
		When Louis Leakey commits himself emotionally to someone, be it friend or lover, he is intensely loyal and devoted to them and he also expects the same kind of unwavering, undying loyalty in return.
	www.topsynergy.com /famous/Louis_Leakey_02.asp (826 words)

	Louis Leakey Biography \| World of Scientific Discovery
		Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey was born on August 7, 1903, in Kabete, Kenya.
		Leakey's first discoveries at that site consisted of both animal fossils, important in the attempts to date the particular stratum (or layer of earth) in which they were found, and, significantly, flint tools.
		In 1959, while Louis was recuperating from an illness, Mary Leakey found substantial fragments of a hominid skull that resembled the robust australopithecines--African hominids possessing small brains and near-human dentition--found in South Africa earlier in the century.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/louis-leakey-wsd (1233 words)

	Louis Leakey and human evolution
		All of these, according to Louis, belonged to a branch of 'Paleoanthropidae' (ancient men) that had diverged from the 'Neoanthropidae' (new men) long ago in the Miocene (at least 15 million years ago, in modern terms).
		Leakey was hardly a bigoted racist; he had been raised and initiated as a member of the Kikuyu tribe and spoke Kikuyu as a native.
		Leakey L.S.B. Homo habilis, Homo erectus and the australopithecines.
	www.talkorigins.org /faqs/homs/leakeydiag.html (674 words)

	Louis Leakey Biography and Bibliography at LitWeb.net
		Louis Leakey, his wife Mary, and their second son Richard made the key discoveries that shaped our understanding of the first human beings.
		Richard Leakey and his wife Maeve sustain a family legacy of research that is now, with the work of their daughter Louise, three generations old.
		Mary Leakey died in Nairobi on December 9, 1996, at the age of 83.
	www.litweb.net /biography/212/Louis_Leakey.html (656 words)

	Louis Leakey Relationships: His Generational Influences (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Louis Leakey is part of a 30-year group of people with a carefree attitude towards life.
		Louis Leakey is part of a 14-year group of people that are highly intuitive, emotional, and sentimental.
		Louis Leakey is part of a 7-year group of people who are extremely enterprising and progressive.
	www.topsynergy.com /famous/Louis_Leakey_10.asp (623 words)

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		Paleontologist, archaeologist and anthropologist Louis Leakey was born at Kabete, Kenya on August 7, 1903.
		Leakey was the first white baby the Kikuyu had ever seen and he learned their language before he could understand English.
		Leakey was married to Mary Douglas Nicol in 1936.
	www.leakey.com /louis_leakey.htm (573 words)

	Scientific American: Mary Leakey: Unearthing History
		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.
	www.sciam.com /print_version.cfm?articleID=0006E1CC-7860-1C76-9B81809EC588EF21 (2030 words)

	A Science Odyssey: People and Discoveries: The Leakey family
		Louis Leakey was born in 1903 in Kenya, where his English parents were missionaries.
		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.
		Louis Leakey has been criticized as opinionated, too eager to create new categories of hominids, too ambitious...but he made radical changes in the way we now view early humans.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/aso/databank/entries/boleak.html (879 words)

	NPR : The Legacy of Louis Leakey
		In a 1966 photo, Dr. Louis Leakey holds the broken molar of a dinotherium, an extinct tusked mammal; his hat cradles a tooth of an extinct elephant.
		Louis Leakey was born in Kenya and educated in England.
		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 /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1387803 (908 words)

	Online NewsHour: Remembering Mary Leakey -- December 9, 1996
		Though she let her husband, Louis Leakey, take most of the limelight, she was responsible for some of the most important discoveries in the study of human evolution.
		Leakey--Mary Leakey this is--decided to dig, and she took the painstaking effort of digging sometimes some fairly large holes in the ground and pulling things out and recording every single detail about where they came from and what they were.
		Louis then came upon her at a dinner party, and he at least was fascinated with her and asked her to come to East Africa to help him.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/remember/leakey_12-9.html (1156 words)

	A "Family Affair" For the Leakeys
		Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey was born on August 7, 1903 in Kenya (East Africa).
		Richard Erskine Frere Leakey was born in Kenya on November 19, 1944, the second son of Louis and Mary.
		In 1965 she was hired by Louis Leakey to study apes and monkeys in Kenya.
	www.workersforjesus.com /leakeys.htm (1580 words)

	Louis Leakey
		Louis Leakey, his wife Mary, and their second son Richard made the key discoveries that have shaped our understanding of the first men.
		Richard Leakey and his wife, Maeve, sustain a family legacy of research that is now, with the work of their daughter Louise, three generations deep.
		Louis Leakey died in London in 1972 at the age of 69.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /leakey.htm (1104 words)

	Louis Leakey
		Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey was born on August 7, 1903 at the Kabete Mission in Kenya, nine miles from Nairobi.
		That is, while prevailing wisdom held that humanity had originated in Asia (as indicated by the Java Man remains and similar fossils), Louis Leakey was obsessed with the notion, originally put forth by Charles Darwin, that man had in fact arisen in Africa.
		Louis meanwhile branched out more into public relations: lecturing, writing, fundraising, and recruiting young anthropologists to join them in their work, or in related topics of investigation.
	www.nndb.com /people/371/000094089 (1181 words)

	Louis Leakey
		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.
		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.
		Louis and Mary renewed their explorations of the Olduvai site in 1951, and for several years searched for the man that created the handaxes and tools, the Chellean man. In 1959, they began to find indications of what they were looking for until finally they discovered an exciting new skeleton.
	www.freeessays.cc /db/43/svn170.shtml (2523 words)

	The Leakey Foundation - Louis S. B. Leakey
		Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey was born on August 7, 1903 at Kabete Mission (near Nairobi), Kenya where his parents, Harry and Mary (Bazett) Leakey, were English missionaries to the Kikuyu tribe.
		Louis grew up speaking Kikuyu as fluently as English, and at age thirteen was initiated as a member of the Kikuyu tribe.
		Leakey began his university career at Cambridge University in 1922, but a rugby injury caused him to postpone his studies, and he left to help manage a paleontological expedition to Africa.
	www.leakeyfoundation.org /foundation/f1_2.jsp (616 words)

	Birgitte's Primates Page
		Louis Leakey, his wife Mary, and their second son Richard made the key discoveries that have shaped our understanding of the first men.
		Richard Leakey and his wife, Maeve, sustain a family legacy of research that is now, with the work of their daughter Louise, three generations deep.
		In 1947, Louis organized the first Pan-African Congress of Prehistory, a successful event which helped restore his reputation and introduced many scientists to the large amount of important work that the Leakeys had accomplished since the Kanam/Kanjera debacle.
	www.angelfire.com /apes/primates/leakey.html (1257 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.
		Were it not for Louis Leakey, many of the best minds in paleoanthropology might never have been inspired, and many of the best finds might never have been made.
	www.strangescience.net /lleakey.htm (710 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.
		Although Louis Leakey's enthuisiasm and recklessness led to his ostracism early in his career it resulted in his great dedication to all he worked on.
	utexas.edu /courses/wilson/ant304/biography/arybios97/weimanbio.html (2514 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.
		Louis was often away managing other projects or raising funds, and Mary Leakey kept excavating at Olduvai Gorge until 1984.
		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.
	www.strangescience.net /leakey.htm (615 words)

	Mary Leakey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In 1933, a close friend introduced her to the archaeologist Louis Leakey who was lecturing at the Royal Anthropological institute.
		She met Louis Leakey while he was giving a talk at the Royal Anthropologist Institute.
		Also shedding light on the Leakey family is the interview with Richard Leakey (Mary Leakey's son), Conversations: Richard Leakey (Interviewed by Scott Harris).
	novaonline.nv.cc.va.us /eli/evans/HIS135/events/Leakey96/Leakey.htm (961 words)

	Louis Leakey
		The son of a missionary in Kenya, Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey studied archaeology at Cambridge University from 1922 to 1926.
		In Nairobi, she met Louis Leakey, the scientist whose palaeontological discoveries had finally proved mankind's roots were African, not Asian, as had previously been supposed.
		Leakey was now looking for a woman to study chimpanzees in the wild and to find evidence of their close ancestry to humanity.
	www.ntz.info /gen/n00334.html (5277 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Science -- Granddaughter Louise continues the Leakey dynasty
		Louise Leakey, granddaughter of fossil hunter Louis Leakey, has continued the quest for clues to man's beginnings.
		In the 1930s, Louis and Mary Leakey, determined that Africa would yield early human fossils, set up camp in Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania and began digging.
		Louis, who died in 1972, might be surprised that his granddaughter is at the helm, she says.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/science/20040623-9999-1c23leakey.html (1689 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.
		During the early 1960's an expedition led by Louis Leakey found fossils at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania that he considered remains of an early human being.
		Leakey was buried in the country of his birth on October 4, 1972.
	www2.lucidcafe.com /lucidcafe/library/95aug/leakey.html (242 words)

	Louis Leakey Centennial Tribute
		I think Louis Leakey would be just as interested in the questions that remain as those that have been answered." The Field Museum has long been an international leader in evolutionary biology, paleontology, archaeology and ethnography.
		Named for Louis Leakey, the Foundation has underwritten many seminal studies that inform our knowledge of the human past including the research of Richard Leakey, Jane Goodall, and Dian Fossey.
		Meave and Louise Leakey will reflect on their experiences as members of the Leakey family and explore the implications of their most recent fossil finds.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2003-09/fm-llc091803.php (677 words)

	TIME 100: The Leakey Family
		Not only did Louis, his wife Mary and their second son Richard make the key discoveries that shaped our understanding of human origins, but they also inspired a generation of researchers (myself included) to pick up where they left off.
		The synergy of Louis and Mary's union was obvious from the outset.
		In contrast to Louis' charming, gregarious, outgoing nature, Mary was shy, reserved, socially uncomfortable and, in her own words, not very fond of other people.
	www.time.com /time/time100/scientist/profile/leakey.html (552 words)

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