legendary paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey picked three women — very consciously, according to Jane Goodall — to enrich the field of primatology. “I was really lucky,” she says ...

There, Galdikas studied psychology, zoology and anthropology, and met Louis Leakey, a famed paleoanthropologist ... s many contributions to the study of primatology after sitting down in her ...

Louis Leakey was born in 1903 in Kenya ... and stimulated research in new fields like primatology, as well as sparking general interest in all the fields he touched.

One of man’s earliest ancestors, says Anthropologist Louis Leakey, was a puny creature named Kenyapithecus africanus that inhabited the earth 20 million years ago. Bones that Leakey found in his ...

The renowned primatologist wants us to remember that ... and it was only then that I wrote to Louis Leakey. The thing is that ...

The primatologist, 83 this year ... When Jane cabled the news to Louis Leakey, he sent this response: In the wake of these discoveries, National Geographic gave Jane a grant to continue her ...

Louis Leakey was born in 1903 in Kenya ... and stimulated research in new fields like primatology, as well as sparking general interest in all the fields he touched.