British/Kenyan archaeologist and anthropologist who became famous for his academic work centered on human origins. Louis Leakey, his wife Mary, and their second son Richard made the key discoveries that have shaped our understanding of the first men. Richard Leakey and his wife, Maeve, sustain a family legacy of research that is now, with the work of their daughter Louise, three generations deep.
He discovered where human evolution occurred!
The answer is he studied it because Mary Leakey liked studying archaeology.
they are considered inportant because its rachet
Discoveries by the Leakeys and other archaeologists have provided evidence that
early humans lived in eastern africa
that we are men
The Leakeys
August 7,1903
a rock type
The Nutcracker Man.
It is the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania.
Mary Leakey was an archeologist, I believe. She studied ancient human history by analyzing remains buried thousands of years ago, in central and eastern Africa.
Donald Johanson and the Leakey family are alike in that they are all renowned paleoanthropologists who have made significant contributions to the field of human evolution. They have discovered important hominid fossils like Lucy (Johanson) and Turkana Boy (Leakeys), shed light on our evolutionary history, and advanced our understanding of human origins.
Lisa Ann Lambert has written: 'The Leakeys' -- subject(s): Anthropologists, Biography, Fossil hominids, Juvenile literature, Leakey family, Physical anthropologists