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Mary Douglas Leakey, FBA (née Nicol, 6 February 1913 – 9 December 1996) 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 Tanzania, eastern Africa.
Mary Douglas Leakey was an English-born archaeologist and paleoanthropologist, a member of the distinguished Leakey family of scholars and researchers, who made several fossil finds of great importance in the understanding of human evolution.
Dec 16, 1996 · Mary Leakey, one of the world's most renowned hunters of early human fossils, died in Nairobi on December 9, 1996, at the age of 83.
Feb 6, 2022 · By 1976, at age 63, Mary Leakey had already earned a reputation as an anthropologist and an expert on the origin of man. Along with her husband, Louis Leakey, she studied fossils in Africa for over 40 years.
May 23, 2018 · Kenyan archaeologist and paleoanthropologist, particularly noted for her work on the earliest stone toolmaking traditions at Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge, Mary Leakey’s name is invariably linked with that of her charismatic husband Louis Leakey; but although the careers of the two were almost inextricably intertwined over more than forty years ...
Dec 23, 1996 · She worked for decades–painstakingly, methodically–in his shadow, but by the time Mary Leakey died last week, at 83, in Nairobi, Kenya, her scientific reputation had surpassed that of her more...
Mary Douglas Leakey. Mary Leakey (1913-1996) was one of the world’s most renowned archaeologists. She is credited with many important discoveries that changed our understanding of human evolution and is considered a preeminent contributor to the field of human origins.
Dec 10, 1996 · Mary Leakey, matriarch of the famous fossil-hunting family in Africa whose own reputation in paleoanthropology soared with discoveries of bones, stone tools and the footprints of early human...
Mary Douglas Leakey, FBA (née Nicol, 6 February 1913 – 9 December 1996) was a British paleoanthropologist who discovered the first fossilised Proconsul skull, an extinct ape which is now believed to be ancestral to humans.
Jun 12, 2023 · Mary Leakey (1913-1996), born Mary Douglas Nicol, is the patron saint of misbehaved youths. Her father was a painter who traveled the world in search of subjects, bringing his family with him. As such, Mary’s youth was full of exotic locations, visits to ancient cave paintings, and no formal schooling of any kind.