They and their children (especially Richard and his wife Meave) became known as the first family of paleontology. Louis Leakey was born in 1903 in Kenya, where his English parents were missionaries.

Had it not been for his father Louis Leakey’s swift injection with an anti-venom, Richard shuddered to think of what would have happened. Years later, his kidney malfunctioned and doctors said ...

Paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey, whose surname is tantamount to ... study of the human fossil record -- as the middle son of Louis and Mary Leakey, one of the most famous couples in history ...

The co-recipient (together with Louis) of the 1962 Hubbard Medal - the highest honour from the National Geographic Society - had three children: Jonathan, Richard and Philip Leakey. Jonathan ...

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 ...

“I was really lucky,” she says, “because Louis Leakey believed that women would make better observers in the field than men. He thought that they would be more patient.” In She Walks With ...

They and their children (especially Richard and his wife Meave) became known as the first family of paleontology. Louis Leakey was born in 1903 in Kenya, where his English parents were missionaries.