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Few people have had more impact on the study of human origins than the brilliant, passionate, energetic, eccentric and occasionally erratic Louis Leakey.
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The following drawing comes from Louis Leakey's 1934 book Adam's Ancestors, and shows how he believed human evolution had occurred. ... There are only a couple of fossils that Leakey accepted as being on or near the lineage of "true man". One was Louis' own "Homo kanamensis", named from a few ... Biography of Louis Leakey...
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www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/leakeydiag.html
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A Biography of the Anthropologist Louis Leakey ... Louis Leakey was born near Nairobi, Kenya. His parents were Harry and Mary Leakey and were both missionaries. Some people say he was born to be an archaeologist. He grew up with children from the Kikuyu tribe.
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Louis Leakey was born in Kabete, British East Africa, now Kenya, into a missionary family. At the age of twelve he found his first fossils, and knew that he wanted to be an archeologist. Leakey graduated from Cambridge, and set out to prove Darwin's theory that Africa was humankind's homeland.
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www.kirjasto.sci.fi/leakey.htm
www.kirjasto.sci.fi/leakey.htm
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When Louis Leakey began to search for human fossils in East Africa in the early 1930s he was met with skepticism from his colleagues. ... Louis and his wife Mary held firm to this belief through decades of exploring sites in Tanzania and Kenya, and in 1959 their faith was vindicated when they uncovered the first of many...
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www.leakey.com/
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Lucidcafé's Profile of Louis S.B. Leakey ... During the early 1960's an expedition led by Louis Leakey found fossils at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania that he considered remains of an early human being. Leakey and other scientists named the species Homo Habilis and identified it as the earliest member of the genus of human beings.
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www.lucidcafe.com/library/95aug/leakey.html
www.lucidcafe.com/library/95aug/leakey.html
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The mission of the Leakey Foundation is to increase scientific knowledge and public understanding of human origins and evolution. ... View more Leakey Foundation videos...
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Louis Leakey had a try there in 1935, but came up emptyhanded. He did not know that a tooth he had sent to the British Museum labeled as a baboon's was a hominid canine. Not only was it the first adult australopithecine tooth ever found, but it was the first of any kind since the discovery of the Taung Baby.
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