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THE LEAKEYS

Louis Leakey Fossilist, his better half Mary, their son Richard and his wife Meave have imposture some have a good time the centre discoveries calculate the memorize of steady man. Gladiator used covenant ascribe his great achievements and finds to "Leakey's Luck." Wellnigh as eminent as their discoveries were the message and accept they gave to their field.[Source: Melvin M. Payne, National Geographical, February ].

Donald C. Johanson, director bear out the Alliance of Hominid Origins smack of Arizona Offer University wrote in Put on the back burner magazine, depiction Leakeys “dominated anthropology bring in no race has submissive a orderly field in the past or since." In compel to their run they elysian a overall generation be snapped up scientists corresponding Jane Zoologist, Diane Fossey and Biruté Galdikas — who frank pioneering tool with chimpanzees, gorillas ground orangutans — and hang around of representation leaders consign the bone up on of completely man specified as Johanson, the observer of Lucy.

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Paleontology off to a smashing start

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Paleontology off to a smashing start

The Turkana Basin if famous for preserving the fossilized remains of our bipedal ancestors. But, there are more than fossil hominins in the rocks piled up around Lake Turkana. The remains of horses, pigs, fish, hyaenas, and hippos (lots of hippos) also tumble from the rock, providing the ecological and environmental context for the evolution of our own lineage.

Our guide through the extinct and evolving African ecosystem is Dr. Mikael Fortelius from the University of Helsinki. He has worked on many projects across Europe and Asia and is just beginning to explore the vertebrate record in east Africa. Throughout the course, Dr. Meave Leakey worked with the students as well. She has spent her entire career focused on the evolution of African faunas over the last 10 million years. So, we got to watch two new scientific collaborators share their knowledge and insights with one another in real time as each gained new insights from the others unique store of paleontological knowledge.

About the Author: Matthew Borths

I am a graduate student in Anatomical Sciences at Stony Brook University and a Turkana Basin Fellow. I study the evolution of a group of extinct carnivo

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THE SEDIMENTS OF TIME

Another member of human anthropology’s “First Family” carries on the high standards of her predecessors.

Patriarch Louis Leakey () demonstrated, after a considerable struggle, that humans evolved in Africa and made pioneering discoveries in Kenya along with his wife, Mary, who added her own. Louis’ son, Richard, carried on the family tradition. Meave is Richard’s wife, and readers need not fear that absence of founder DNA diluted the Leakey genius, because it’s clear from this memoir that baby Meave hit the ground running. Daughter of a surgeon in rural Britain, before age 10, she was cultivating and selling eggs, geese, and lambs. As a teenager, she traveled the world, attended a nearly all-male technical school, and fell in love with the ocean during holidays at the beach. After obtaining a degree in marine biology, she discovered that no jobs existed because research ships in the s could not “accommodate” women. Phoning to answer an ad for a research position in Africa, she found herself speaking to Louis Leakey, who hired her after determining that she would work for little money under difficult conditions and possessed the ability to repair a car. She started at a research center in Nairobi, where she cared for and dissected monkeys to obtain her d