He was also instrumental in persuading jane goodall, dian fossey, and biruté m.f Paleoanthropologist louis leakey, with wife mary leakey, established an excavation site at olduvai gorge to search for fossils The team made unprecedented discoveries of hominids millions of. These fossils were the first in a long and continually emerging series of spectacular paleoanthropological and archaeological discoveries in east africa, spanning six decades and three generations of the leakey family. Louis seymour bazet leakey was a paleoanthropologist and archaeologist renowned for his fieldwork in east africa His career spanned several decades, and he made important contributions to our understanding of human origins.
One of his lasting legacies is his mentorship of three prominent female primatologists, sometimes called the “trimates” or “leakey’s angels.” The leakey family is a british and kenyan family consisting of a number of notable military figures, agricultural scientists and archaeologists of the 20th and 21st centuries
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