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Richard Leakey

Richard Erskine Frere Leakey is a politician, paleoanthropologist and conservationist. He is second of the three sons of the archaeologists Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey, and is the younger brother of Colin Leakey. » Read more on Wikipedia.org

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Mary Leakey: Matriarch to three generations of archaeology royalty
2013-02-07
According to Leakey.com, Richard Leakey, second son of Louis and Mary, first resisted the family business. Richard was hard working, smart, stubborn, and resented the idea of riding on his family name, causing a strained relationship with his father ...
(Christian Science Monitor)
  1. Mary Leakey At 100: Her Findings Have Researchers Digging For More

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Google Doodle honors British bone-finder Mary Leakey
2013-02-06
Mary spent most of the next 60 years digging in the area, and the Leakey family – Louis, Mary, and their son Richard – have been pivotal in uncovering evidence of our origins as a species. Mary Leakey's most significant find was likely the Laetoli ...
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  1. Google's Logo For Mary Leakey's 100th Birthday
  2. Mary Leakey 100th birthday: A son on her adventuresome parenting
  3. Mary Leakey, British Archaeologist, Honored With Google Doodle

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Mary Leakey, una de las figuras clave en el estudio de la evolución humana
2013-02-06
Del matrimonio de Mary Leakey y Louis Leakey nació su hijo Richard Leakey en Nairobi en 1944. Pronto siguió los pasos de sus padres. A los seis años encontró su primer fósil, una parte de un cerdo gigante extinguido, y en 1967 dirigió una expedición ...
(La Voz de Galicia)
  1. Mary Leakey, la antropóloga que descubrió el «Homo Habilis», ahora en Google
  2. La arqueóloga Mary Leakey homanejada con un doodle en su centenario
  3. Mary Leakey, arqueóloga británica

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Mary Leakey 100th birthday: Google doodle honours famous British ...
2013-02-06
The name Leakey is synonymous with archaeological discoveries – Mary's husband Louis and sons Jonathan, Richard and Philip also worked in the same trade and often explored as a family. Mary Leakey died on December 9, 1996, at the age of 83, leaving ...
(Mirror.co.uk)
  1. Mary Leakey's 100th Birthday

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Don't blame the poacher alone, corrupt cartels fuel the vice
2013-02-02
KENYA: Former Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) Director Richard Leakey has attributed the recent surge in poaching to widespread corruption even as it emerged Kenya is losing at least one elephant daily. Dr Leakey agreed with an independent investigation ...
(The Standard Digital News)
  1. life poaching 'national crisis'

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Today in History 12/19
2012-12-19
Paleontologist Richard E. Leakey is 68. Rock singer Alvin Lee (Ten Years After) is 68. Musician John McEuen is 67. Singer Janie Fricke is 65. Jazz musician Lenny White is 63. Actor Mike Lookinland is 52. Actress Jennifer Beals is 49. Actor Scott Cohen ...
(Grays Harbor Daily World)
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Anne E. Jeffers, museum volunteer
2012-10-29
In the 1970s, Mrs. Jeffers did volunteer work at what is now the Ethnographic Museum of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies at Addis Ababa University. Later, she worked with paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey at the National Museums of Kenya in Nairobi ...
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    could boost tourism
    2012-08-17
    Renowned conservationist Richard Leakey told Xinhua in Nairobi on Tuesday that the Lake Turkana region which is home to world famous “Turkana boy” could become a major tourist's hub in east Africa despite its remote location. “The fossils discovered ...
    (Coastweek)
    1. Prehistoric fossils may boost tourism in Kenya
    2. Leakey Calls for Environmental Consideration
    3. China's role in funding Ethiopian dam draws ire

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    Leakeys discover three new fossils in Turkana
    2012-08-14
    TBI is an affiliate of National Museums of Kenya and is funded by Stony Brook University in New York and is associated with archeologist Richard Leakey. The finding is set to challenge the contemporary human evolution theory stating that in the genus ...
    (The Star)
    1. Fossils Hint at Distant Cousins to Our Ancestors
    2. SCI-TECH: Fossils hint at distant cousins to our ancestors
    3. A Big Bang Theory of Homo

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