Louis Leakey

The skull of Paranthropus was discovered by Mary and Louis Leakey in 1959 at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, and helped put the Leakeys on the world stage.

Study: Ancient 'Nutcracker Man' really ate grass 2011

Louis Leakey, the famed anthropologist who first sent me to Gombe, found money for her to come out for a few months because I argued that she looked and sounded a bit like me.

A Journey Through the Jungle 2010

Cope who had a famous rivalry but swiftly brings the story up to date, incorporating later discoveries by Louis Leakey, Donald Johanson, and others.

When We First Undertook A Search for Life on Earth Michael Shermer 2010

When her mentor, anthropologist Louis Leakey, sent her in 1960 to study chimpanzees in Gombe National Park in Tanzania, she had no training as a scientist.

Dr. Larry Dossey: Spiritual Living: Why We Need Empathic Science 2010

Louis Leakey, the archaeologist who dug up Lucy, one of the earliest known human skeletons, also discovered a jawbone dating from 4000 BC from a nearby site that carried the signs of a peculiar form of lymphoma found endemically in southeastern Africa although the origin of that tumor was never confirmed pathologically.

The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

When her mentor, anthropologist Louis Leakey, sent her in 1960 to study chimpanzees in Gombe National Park in Tanzania, she had no training as a scientist.

Dr. Larry Dossey: Spiritual Living: Why We Need Empathic Science 2010

Louis Leakey, the anthropologist who dug up some of the earliest known human skeletons, also discovered a jawbone dating from two million years ago from a nearby site that carried the signs of a peculiar form of lymphoma found endemically in southeastern Africa although the origin of that tumor was never confirmed pathologically.

The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

It was the latter perspective that led the anthropologist Louis Leakey, in 1960, to decide that he might better understand the puzzling hominid fossils he was excavating in Kenya if he knew more about the way such proto-humans behaved.

From Savage to Savvy: A New Understanding of Chimps 2010

Louis Leakey, the anthropologist who dug up some of the earliest known human skeletons, also discovered a jawbone dating from two million years ago from a nearby site that carried the signs of a peculiar form of lymphoma found endemically in southeastern Africa although the origin of that tumor was never confirmed pathologically.

The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

On July 17, 1959 paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey discovered a fossilized skull from a previously unknown species of hominid that she and husband Louis Leakey named Zinjanthropus boisei.

Zinj and the Leakeys 2009