1. English palaeontologist (son of Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey) who continued the work of his parents; he was appointed director of a wildlife preserve in Kenya but resigned under political pressure (born in 1944)
   - Richard Leakey, Richard Erskine Leakey 
2. English palaeontologist whose account of fossil discoveries in Tanzania changed theories of human evolution (1903-1972)
   - Louis Leakey, Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey 
3. English palaeontologist (the wife of Louis Leakey) who discovered the Zinjanthropus skull that was 1,750,000 years old (1913-1996)
   - Mary Leakey, Mary Douglas Leakey

Type of: anthropologist, fossilist, palaeontologist [Brit, Cdn], paleontologist [N. Amer]

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