Louis leakey dian fossey biography

(1903-1972)

Who Was Louis Leakey?

Paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey, with wife Mary Leakey, established an excavation site at Olduvai Gorge to search for fossils.

The team made unprecedented discoveries of hominids millions of years old linked to human evolution, including H. habilis and H.

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erectus. Leakey, an avid lecturer and author who also worked in primatology, died on October 1, 1972.

Early Years

Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey was born on August 7, 1903, in Kabete, Kenya, and was raised by English missionary parents among the Kikuyu people.

In 1921, he travelled to England to be educated in anthropology and archaeology at St. John's College, Cambridge University, ultimately earning his doctorate in African prehistory. He held fast to Charles Darwin's belief that humanity had originated from Africa, defying conventional beliefs that the species' origins were from Asia or Europe.

Union with Mary Leakey

Leakey returned to the continent of his birth to take