Meave Leakey

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Meave (Epps) Leakey (born 1942 in London, England) is together with her husband Richard Leakey one of the most renowned British paleontologists. She studies the origin of mankind in Africa.

Flat-Faced Man of Kenya

Dr. Leakey’s research team at Lake Turkana, Kenya made a discovery in 1999 that completely changed our understanding of early human ancestry. They found a 3.5 million-year-old skull and partial jaw thought to belong to a new branch of our early human family. She named the find Kenyanthropus platyops, or flat-faced man of Kenya.

Books by Dr. Leakey

• Lothagam: The Dawn of Humanity in Eastern Africa by John Harris and Meave Leakey, Eds. (December 2001).
• Stratigraphy and Paleontology of Pliocene and Pleistocene Localities West of Lake Turkana, Kenya by John Harris, Meave Leakey, Eds. et al. (October 1988).
• The Fossil Hominids and an Introduction to Their Context, 1968-1974 (Koobi For a Research Project, Vol. 1) by Meave Leakey, Richard E. Leakey, Eds. (May 1978).
• Koobi For a Research Project (Koobi For a, Researches into Geology, Palaeontology, and Human Origins) by Meave Leakey, ed. et al (Out of Print).

External links

• [Leakey Foundation]
• [Koobi Fora Research Project]
• [Dr. Meave Leakey Discusses Kenyanthropus platyops]

 

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