Mary Leakey
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| Gender | Female |
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| Death | 28 years ago |
| Date of birth | February 6,1913 |
| Zodiac sign | Aquarius |
| Born | London |
| United Kingdom | |
| Date of died | December 9,1996 |
| Died | Nairobi |
| Kenya | |
| Children | Richard Leakey |
| Jonathan Leakey | |
| Philip Leakey | |
| Job | Anthropologist |
| Archaeologist | |
| Books | Disclosing the Past |
| Olduvai Gorge: My Search for Early Man | |
| Africa's Vanishing Art: The Rock Paintings of Tanzania | |
| Programming Language/one | |
| Programming Language/one: With Structured Programming | |
| Awards | Hubbard Medal |
| Prestwich Medal | |
| Spouse | Louis Leakey |
| Education | University College London |
| Parents | Cecilia Marion Frere |
| Erskine Edward Nicol | |
| Grandchildren | Louise Leakey |
| Tiana Fraser Leakey | |
| Lara Fraser Leakey | |
| Kyela Fraser Leakey | |
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| ID | 461617 |
Mary Leakey Life story
Mary Douglas Leakey, FBA was a British paleoanthropologist who discovered the first fossilised Proconsul skull, an extinct ape which is now believed to be ancestral to humans. She also discovered the robust Zinjanthropus skull at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, eastern Africa.
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