Richard Leakey's life was a life of ironies and contrasts; a form two drop-out who became a CEO of a public institution and world-famous paleoanthropologist; a man who lost his vital organs but ...

Paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey, whose surname is tantamount to the origins of mankind, has died Sunday at his native Nairobi, it was announced. He was 77. “I have this afternoon ...