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	The Leakey Foundation - Richard Leakey
		Richard Erskine Leakey was born on December 19, 1944, the second of Louis and Mary Leakey's three sons.
		Richard Leakey enjoyed tracking and observing animals so much that at 17 he left school to establish a photographic safari company.
		Although no longer active in fieldwork, Richard Leakey, as one of the foremost authorities on wildlife and nature conservation, continues to educate others about the dangers of environmental degradation through his many lectures and books.
	www.leakeyfoundation.org /foundation/f1_4.jsp (693 words)

	Biographies: Richard Leakey
		Richard Erskine Leakey was born on December 19, 1944, the second of
		After working on a French/Kenyan/American joint expedition to Omo in Ethiopia, Richard realized once again that his lack of scientific qualifications hindered his progress, so he asked the National Geographic Society for funds to run his own excavation at a site he had found near Lake Rudolf (now Lake Turkana) in Kenya.
		She may not be the last of the Leakey dynasty; their daughter Louise has managed her own paleontological digs.
	www.talkorigins.org /faqs/homs/rleakey.html (762 words)

	EuropaWorld 2912/2000 Dr Richard Leakey
		Richard Leakey comes from a family which is passionate about both conservation and human development.
		In the last ten years Richard Leakey's concern for his country and its people has led him to champion democratic politics and open government in Kenya.
		What makes Richard Leakey's recent life all the more extraordinary is that in 1993, he lost both his legs in a plane crash.
	www.europaworld.org /issue15/drrichardleakey291200.htm (401 words)

	Honorary Associates / Dr. Richard Leakey (Kenya) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The fossil-hunting expeditions Leakey led to the shores surrounding Lake Turkana (formerly Lake Rudolf) in northern Kenya resulted in the discovery of a large number of hominid fossils that inspired a dramatic revision of many theories of early human evolution.
		In 1983 Leakey was involved in another major discovery, that of the 17-million-year-old jaw, teeth, and skull fragments of an apelike creature, Sivapithecus, a possible ancestor of both humans and apes.
		Richard Leakey established the Louis Leakey Memorial Institute for African Prehistory.
	www.rationalistinternational.net /associates/r_leakey.htm (275 words)

	Richard Leakey - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Richard Erskine Frere Leakey (born December 19, 1944), son of Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey, is a renowned British paleontologist and conservationist and archaeologist
		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.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Richard_Leakey (511 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Richard's career as a palaeoanthropologist did not begin with a dateable event or a sudden decision, as did Louis'; he was with his parents on every excavation, was taught every skill and was given responsible work even as a boy.
		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.
		Richard Leakey, President Arap Moi and the WMCD made the international news headlines when a stock pile of 12 tons of ivory was burned in 1989.
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Richard_Leakey (2293 words)

	Richard Leakey
		Richard Leakey is well known in scientific circles, both as the son of famed anthropologists Louis and Mary Leakey, and as a notable paleontologist in his own right.
		Leakey's significant finds include the remains of "Turkana Boy", a 1.6 million year old Homo erectus skeleton, recovered virtually intact, as well as the 2.5 million year old "Black Skull" which forced paleontologists to drastically rethink the structure of the human family tree.
		Leakey was promoted and was given a fairly free hand to start cleaning things up, getting rid of corruption, clearing the lines for aid to go where it needed to go.
	www.nndb.com /people/373/000094091 (1030 words)

	Kenyon College - Richard Leakey to speak at Kenyon
		Richard Leakey, member of the celebrated fossil-hunting family and a world figure in conservation, will speak at Kenyon in early October.
		Leakey secured funds from the National Geographic Society to run an excavation at a site he had discovered near Lake Rudolf (now Lake Turkana) in Kenya, and in 1968, when he was appointed director of the National Museum of Kenya, he commenced fossil-hunting at Rudolf.
		Among Leakey's most important discoveries are WT 15000, nicknamed the "Turkana Boy," a nearly complete skeleton of a Homo erectus boy found in 1984, and WT 17000, the first skull of the species Australopithecus aethiopicus, discovered in 1985.
	www.kenyon.edu /x29263.xml (480 words)

	Richard Leakey Summary
		Richard Erskine Frere Leakey, the second son of Louis and Mary Leakey, was born in Nairobi on December 19, 1944.
		The son of paleoanthropologists Mary Leakey and Louis Leakey,Richard Erskine Frere Leakey was born on December 19, 1944, in Nairobi, Kenya.
		Richard Erskine Frere Leakey was born on December 19, 1944, in Nairobi, Kenya.
	www.bookrags.com /Richard_Leakey (5395 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.
		Richard Leakey is married to Meave Leakey, an important paleoanthropologist in her own right.
	www.umsl.edu /~biology/icte/WEArecipients/leakey.html (549 words)

	NPR : The Legacy of Louis Leakey (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Richard Leakey compares the relationship between him and his wife, Meave, to that of his parents, Mary and Louis.
		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/index.html (980 words)

	Past Lecturer - Dr. Richard Leakey
		Richard Leakey is a man of principle and purpose who has made international headlines for over 30 years.
		Leakey, who recently joined Stony Brook University as a visiting professor of Anthropology, has now turned his focus to conservation and the environment and raising awareness of major ecosystems crises.
		Leakey also is working to develop a $500 million endowment for wildlife preservation for the National Parks of East Africa.
	www.midland.edu /foundation/news/davidson/leakey.php (529 words)

	Omnipelagos.com ~ article "Richard Leakey"
		Richard Erskine Frere Leakey (born 19 December 1944 in Nairobi, Kenya), is a paleontologist, archaeologist and conservationist.
		Richard's wife Meave Leakey and daughter Louise Leakey still continue paleontological research in Northern Kenya.
		Leakey's second stint in the civil service lasted until 2001 when he was forced to resign again.
	www.omnipelagos.com /entry?n=richard_%4Ceakey (912 words)

	Articles / Impact / Man...Apes...Australopithecines...each Uniquely Different - Institute for Creation Research
		Leakey even began to suggest the possibility that the australopithecines were outside of the direct line leading to man — a sterile sidebranch.
		Recently, Richard Leakey, the son of Louis Leakey, has challenged this claim, asserting that more complete remains of the forelimbs and hindlimbs of this creature he had found indicated that this creature did not walk upright.
		Louis Leakey's early assessment of his "Zinjanthropus" (Australopithecus bosei) was that this creature was in the direct line leading to man. Later a growing consensus held that there were two species of the australopithecines, Australopithecus robustus (equated with Australopithecus bosei), and Australopithecus africanus.
	www.icr.org /article/75 (1712 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
		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.
		Among Leakey's academic protegees were Dian Fossey, who studied mountain gorillas, and Jane Goodall, who became famous for her studies of the behavior of chimpanzees.
		Mary Leakey died in Nairobi on December 9, 1996, at the age of 83.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /leakey.htm (1104 words)

	DEHAI NEWS MAILING LIST ARCHIVE: [dehai-news] Service.spiegel.de: SPIEGEL INTERVIEW WITH PALEONTOLOGIST RICHARD LEAKEY ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Richard Leakey and his parents Louise and Mary -- working in Kenya -- have been responsible for some of the most important finds in the search for the origins of man. Now, though, encroaching cattle herds endanger the hunting grounds.
		Leakey: The site is in an area which was a large lake basin for millions of years, with swampland and rivers flowing as far as the Ethiopian highlands.
		Leakey: This was round about the time that early man must have begun his trek to Asia and, later, to Europe.
	www.dehai.org /archives/dehai_news_archive/sept-oct05/1138.html (2300 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Origin of Humankind: Books: Richard Leakey (Site not responding. Last check: )
		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.ca /Origin-Humankind-Richard-Leakey/dp/0465031358 (2418 words)

	Richard Leakey's East Rudolf: Desolate Graveyard of Early Man
		From the semi-permanent grass-roofed huts clustered on the point to catch lake breezes, Richard Leakey and a team of scientists that sometimes swells to two dozen range out over a thousand square miles of hot, hilly thorn-bush country to collect the fossilized bones of various ancestors and cousins of the human species.
		Leakey says that among the next 50 hominids to be found he thinks the odds should give him an unprecedented complete skeleton of a single individual of an extinct form of man of such age.
		Richard will not permit anyone but himself, not even his most trusted co-workers with fancy academic degrees, to take up hominid fossils from wherever they are spotted in or on the ground.
	www.aliciapatterson.org /APF001973/Rensberger/Rensberger10/Rensberger10.html (1536 words)

	Richard Leakey - Resources for Teachers and Students
		Read: Richard Leakey's short Architects of Peace essay is excepted from his book The Sixth Extinction: Patterns of Life and the Future of Humankind, co-authored with Roger Lewin.
		Explore: One of Richard Leakey's major efforts as a conservationist, during his tenure as director of the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS), was the program to curtail the poaching of wild elephants, which were seriously endangered.
		Extend: Richard Leakey has long been considered a controversial figure, one whom the BBC News likened to an "ageing Indiana Jones minus the bullwhip." His involvement in Kenyan politics has cost him dearly: an airplane crash that is suspected to have been caused by sabotage resulted in the loss of both of Leakey's legs.
	www.scu.edu /ethics/architects-of-peace/Leakey/lesson.html (491 words)

	Richard Leakey Relationships: His Mentality (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Richard Leakey insists on being shown the facts behind any statement he hears, and his natural skepticism often borders on cynicism.
		Leakey approaches problems clearly and rationally and maintains his poise and objectivity even in the midst of critical situations.
		Richard Leakey is also a good strategist, and he will plan and patiently follow a realistic course which will lead to his eventual success.
	www.topsynergy.com /famous/Richard_Leakey_04.asp (450 words)

	Mary (Douglas) Leakey Biography - Biography.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Leakey used this talent as her entry into the field of archaeology; she served as an illustrator at a dig in England when she was only seventeen.
		Louis Leakey died in 1972, and Mary Leakey continued on with her research and fossil hunting.
		Richard Leakey, his wife Meave, and their daughter Louise play active roles in continuing the family legacy.
	www.biography.com /search/article.jsp?aid=9376051 (348 words)

	The Infidels - Richard Leakey
		Richard Erskine Frere Leakey is a paleontologist, archaeologist and conservationist.
		Leakey started his career following in the footsteps of his famous parents with discoveries of early hominid fossils in East Africa.
		Leakey's second stint in the civil service lasted till 2001 when he was forced to resign again.
	www.theinfidels.org /zunb-richardleakey.htm (925 words)

	Zoocheck Canada Inc. - Events (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Renowned paleontologist Dr. Richard Leakey was born in Nairobi, Kenya a son of the celebrated archaeologists Dr. Louis Leakey and Dr. Mary Leakey.
		Richard Leakey's concern for nature was evident at an early age, and later in his decision to start his own business as a safari guide.
		Foregoing a formal university education, Richard went on to establish himself in the scientific community as Administrative Director of the National Museums of Kenya, and six years later as their Chief Executive.
	www.zoocheck.com /events/leakey.shtml (242 words)

	35 Who Made a Difference: Richard Leakey
		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.
		"Richard inherited those genes, I think, that need to inspire," she once told me. In his spare time, Leakey has worked on behalf of Kenya's kidney patients and, with his wife, the paleontologist Meave Leakey, helped finance the education of numerous Kenyan graduate students.
	www.smithsonianmagazine.com /issues/2005/november/leakey.php (734 words)

	AWF: Leakey Renamed KWS Director
		Although they are adapted to semi-arid conditions and require less water than other zebra species, these zebras compete with domestic livestock for water and have suffered heavy poaching for their meat and skins.
		Leakey, despite past differences with the government of President Daniel arap Moi, told reporters he believes he has an obligation to Kenya and that "in the hope that I can indeed be helpful at this time, I have accepted the position."
		Leakey also said he would oppose private takeovers of wildlife sanctuaries and take steps to boost wildlife tourism, the country's third-largest revenue producer.
	www.awf.org /content/headline/detail/1052?print=true?print=true (161 words)

	Richard Leakey
		Richard Leakey, a renowned paleoanthropologist and environmentalist, has made international headlines for his work in Kenya.
		Richard Leakey’s experience as paleontologist and conservationist offers him a unique view on our current predicament.
		The personal cost was high (the 1993 airplane crash that took his legs and nearly his life was likely no accident), but his love of Kenya, and his convictions about the direction of his country – and all of sub-Sahara Africa – must take to survive, have been unshakeable.
	www.isepp.org /Pages/01-02%20Pages/Leakey.html (421 words)

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