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Mary Douglas Leakey, FBA was a British paleoanthropologist who discovered the first fossilised Proconsul skull, an extinct ape which is now believed to be ancestral to humans. She also discovered the robust Zinjanthropus skull at Olduvai Gorge in... Wikipedia
Born: February 6, 1913, London, United Kingdom
Died: December 9, 1996 (age 83 years), Nairobi, Kenya
Spouse: Louis Leakey (m. 1936–1972)
Children: Richard Leakey, Jonathan Leakey, and Philip Leakey
Education: University College London
Awards: Hubbard Medal (1962) and Prestwich Medal (1969)
Grandchildren: Louise Leakey, Tiana Fraser Leakey, Lara Fraser Leakey, and more
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Dec 16, 1996 · Editors' Note: Mary Leakey, one of the world's most renowned hunters of early human fossils, died in Nairobi on December 9, 1996, ...
Mary Leakey is the outstanding pioneer of the study of early hominid living, or activity places and so has made possible the new land use studies of the present ...
From the late 1930s, Louis and Mary Leakey found stone tools in Olduvai and elsewhere, found several extinct vertebrates, including the 25-million-year-old ...