Leakey
1. English paleontologist (son of Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey) who continued the work of his parents;
he was appointed director of a wildlife preserve in Kenya but resigned under political pressure (born in 1944)
• Syn:
Richard Leakey, Richard Erskine Leakey
• Instance Hypernyms:
paleontologist, palaeontologist, fossilist, anthropologist
2. English paleontologist (the wife of Louis Leakey) who discovered the Zinjanthropus skull that was 1,750,000 years old (1913-1996)
• Syn:
Mary Leakey, Mary Douglas Leakey
• Instance Hypernyms:
paleontologist, palaeontologist, fossilist, anthropologist
3. English paleontologist whose account of fossil discoveries in Tanzania changed theories of human evolution (1903-1972)
• Syn:
Louis Leakey, Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey
• Instance Hypernyms:
paleontologist, palaeontologist, fossilist, anthropologist
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