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Leakey

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Noun

1. leakey, richard erskine leakey, richard leakey

English paleontologist (son of Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey) who continued the work of his parents; he was appointed director of a wildlife preserve in Kenya but resigned under political pressure (born in 1944)

2. leakey, mary douglas leakey, mary leakey

English paleontologist (the wife of Louis Leakey) who discovered the Zinjanthropus skull that was 1,750,000 years old (1913-1996)

3. leakey, louis leakey, louis seymour bazett leakey

English paleontologist whose account of fossil discoveries in Tanzania changed theories of human evolution (1903-1972)

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Leakey

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noun
1. 
Louis Seymour Bazett (ˈbæzɪt). 1903–72, British anthropologist and archaeologist, settled in Kenya. He discovered fossil remains of manlike apes in E Africa
2. 
his son Richard. born 1944, Kenyan anthropologist, who discovered the remains of primitive man over 2 million years old in E Africa

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Leakey

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1. 
Louis (Seymour Bazett)1903-72; Brit. paleontologist, born in Kenya
2. 
Mary (Douglas)1913-96; Brit. paleontologist: wife of Louis

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Leakey

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Family of British and Kenyan archaeologists, anthropologists, and paleontologists, including Louis (1903-1972), who used a series of fossil discoveries in Tanzania made largely by his wife Mary (1913-1996) to argue influentially that humans had evolved in Africa. Several members of their family have continued their research.

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