Fossils of hominins — the group that includes ... journals at the time — Johanson and fellow paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey sparred over their differing views in a televised debate hosted ...

Inspired by his father’s work on human origins, third son Richard Leakey has achieved fame for his own fossil discoveries. In late September 1972, Richard flew down to Nairobi from his research ...

It was Leakey's second marriage. They returned to Kenya in 1937 and had three children. Their son Richard, born in Kenya in 1944, made his first fossil find at age six -- a part of an extinct ...

Paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey, whose surname is tantamount to ... Leakey was destined for palaeoanthropology -- the study of the human fossil record -- as the middle son of Louis and Mary ...

Ignacio A. Lazagabaster, a paleontologist at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), is ...

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 ...

It was Leakey's second marriage. They returned to Kenya in 1937 and had three children. Their son Richard, born in Kenya in 1944, made his first fossil find at age six -- a part of an extinct ...