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Mary Leakey
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British paleoanthropologist (1913-1996)
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Mary Leakey (1913–1996) was a British anthropologist, archaeologist, paleontologist, and botanical collector. Born in London, she was the spouse of Louis Leakey and the mother of Richard Leakey. Her field of work was anthropology, and she held an honorary doctorate. She was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Sciences.
Leakey received several awards, including the Prestwich Medal, the Hubbard Medal, and Fellow of the British Academy. She was also recognized as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her published works include *Olduvai Gorge* and *Africa's Vanishing Art*. Items from her collection are held at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. She died in Nairobi.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Olduvai Gorge
- Africa's Vanishing Art
via Open Library + Wikidata
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A new method of classifying prognostic comorbidity in longitudinal studies: Development and validation
· 1987 · cited 42,828x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,908x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,797x
- Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults
· 1998 · cited 15,220x
- Potent and specific genetic interference by double-stranded RNA in Caenorhabditis elegans
· 1998 · cited 12,384x
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Key facts
- Born
- Mary Douglas Nicol , ( 1913-02-06 ) 6 February 1913, London, England
- Died
- 9 December 1996 (1996-12-09) (aged 83), Nairobi , Kenya
- Alma mater
- Britain and Kenya
- Known for
- Zinjanthropus fossil; Laetoli footprints
- Spouse
- Louis Leakey ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1936 ; died 1972 )
- Children
- Jonathan Leakey Richard Leakey Philip Leakey
- Awards
- Hubbard Medal (1962) Prestwich Medal (1969)
- Fields
- Paleoanthropology
- Institutions
- Central Kenya
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Encyclopedic overview
Mary Douglas Leakey, FBA (née Nicol, 6 February 1913 – 9 December 1996) was a British paleoanthropologist who discovered the first fossilised Proconsul skull, an extinct ape believed to be ancestral to humans. She also discovered the robust Zinjanthropus skull at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, eastern Africa. For much of her career she worked with her husband, Louis Leakey, at Olduvai Gorge, where they uncovered fossils of ancient hominines and the earliest hominins, as well as the stone tools produced by the latter group. Mary Leakey developed a system for classifying the stone tools found at Olduvai. She discovered the Laetoli footprints, and at the Laetoli site she discovered hominin fossils that were more than 3.75 million years old.
During her career, Leakey discovered fifteen new species of animal. She also brought about the naming of a new genus.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mary Leakey” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.