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单词 Leakey
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Leakey
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Below are edited excerpts from a conversation with Dr. Galdikas about Kalimantan, Camp Leakey and the orangutans.
New York Times(Dec 29, 2016)
It was a way to find clues, Leakey reasoned, about the lives and behaviors of our earliest human ancestors.
Washington Post(Sep 27, 2016)
Decades after its discovery by Louis Leakey in 1932, the fossil’s antiquity and provenance have remained in dispute, along with the medical diagnosis.
New York Times(Aug 22, 2016)
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n English paleontologist whose account of fossil discoveries in Tanzania changed theories of human evolution (1903-1972)
Syn|Exp
Louis Leakey, Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey
anthropologist
a social scientist who specializes in anthropology
fossilist, palaeontologist, paleontologist
a specialist in paleontology
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n English paleontologist (the wife of Louis Leakey) who discovered the Zinjanthropus skull that was 1,750,000 years old (1913-1996)
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Mary Douglas Leakey, Mary Leakey
anthropologist
a social scientist who specializes in anthropology
fossilist, palaeontologist, paleontologist
a specialist in paleontology
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n English paleontologist (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)
Syn|Exp
Richard Erskine Leakey, Richard Leakey
anthropologist
a social scientist who specializes in anthropology
fossilist, palaeontologist, paleontologist
a specialist in paleontology
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