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A Biography of the Anthropologist Mary Leakey ... Mary Douglas Nicol Leakey was born February 6, 1913 in London, England. Because of her father’s profession as a painter, she and her family rarely lived in one town for very long. She grew up in many countries including England, France and Italy.
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www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/biography/klmno/leakey...
www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/biography/klmno/leakey_mary.html
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References Leakey M.D. (1984): Disclosing the past. New York: Doubleday. (Mary Leakey's autobiography) ... Mary Leakey: Unearthing History (a Scientific American interview)
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www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/mleakey.html
www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/mleakey.html
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Mary Leakey was a major figure in the uncovering of East African prehistory, best known for her excavations (digging for fossils) of some of the earliest members of the human family, their footprints, and their artifacts (any tools, weapons, or other items made by humans).
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www.notablebiographies.com/Ki-Lo/Leakey-Mary.html
www.notablebiographies.com/Ki-Lo/Leakey-Mary.html
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Mary Douglas Nicol Leakey was born February 26, 1913 to Erskine Nicol, a landscape artist of Scottish descent and Cecilia Frere of East Anglia. ... Also significant during this time period was the first Pan African Congress of Prehistory and Paleontology hosted by Mary and Louis Leakey in 1947. This led to their funding...
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www.webster.edu/~woolflm/maryleakey.html
www.webster.edu/~woolflm/maryleakey.html
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When Mary Leakey (originally Mary Nicol) was little, her artistic father took her to see ancient cave paintings in France, inspiring her interest in both art and early humans. Her father died when she was still quite young, and the rebellious girl managed to get herself expelled twice.
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www.strangescience.net/leakey.htm
www.strangescience.net/leakey.htm
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Louis, Mary & Richard Leakey ... Louis Leakey and his wife, Mary, dig for bits of bones of prehistoric humans in Tanganyika in 1961 ... The Leakey Family; Without the groundbreaking — and backbreaking — efforts of Louis, Mary and Richard, the story of how we evolved would still be largely untold; By DONALD C. JOHANSON;
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www.time.com/time/time100/scientist/profile/leakey.html
www.time.com/time/time100/scientist/profile/leakey.html
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When Louis Leakey and Mary Nicol first met, he asked her to help with illustrations for his upcoming (1934) book Adam's Ancestors: An Up-to-Date Outline of What is Known about the Origin of Man. Within a few years they were married.
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www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/boleak.html
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MARY LEAKEY, FOSSIL HUNTER ... Mary Leakey, the legendary anthropologist, died today. She was 83. Though she let her husband, Louis Leakey, take most of the limelight, she was responsible for some of the most important discoveries in the study of human evolution.
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www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/remember/leakey_12-9.html
www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/remember/leakey_12-9.html
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