nnoun.personEnglish 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)Synset:Leakey Richard Erskine Leakey Richard Leakey
Instance Hypernyms:anthropologist fossilist palaeontologist paleontologist
Inherited Hypernyms:leakeyanthropologistsocial scientistscientistpersoncausal agentphysical entityentity
Inherited Hypernyms:leakeyanthropologistsocial scientistscientistpersonorganismliving thingwholeobjectphysical entityentity
Inherited Hypernyms:leakeypaleontologistscientistpersoncausal agentphysical entityentity
Inherited Hypernyms:leakeypaleontologistscientistpersonorganismliving thingwholeobjectphysical entityentity
nnoun.personEnglish paleontologist (the wife of Louis Leakey) who discovered the Zinjanthropus skull that was 1,750,000 years old (1913-1996)Synset:Leakey Mary Douglas Leakey Mary Leakey
Instance Hypernyms:anthropologist fossilist palaeontologist paleontologist
Inherited Hypernyms:leakeyanthropologistsocial scientistscientistpersoncausal agentphysical entityentity
Inherited Hypernyms:leakeyanthropologistsocial scientistscientistpersonorganismliving thingwholeobjectphysical entityentity
Inherited Hypernyms:leakeypaleontologistscientistpersoncausal agentphysical entityentity
Inherited Hypernyms:leakeypaleontologistscientistpersonorganismliving thingwholeobjectphysical entityentity
nnoun.personEnglish paleontologist whose account of fossil discoveries in Tanzania changed theories of human evolution (1903-1972)Synset:Leakey Louis Leakey Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey
Instance Hypernyms:anthropologist fossilist palaeontologist paleontologist
Inherited Hypernyms:leakeyanthropologistsocial scientistscientistpersoncausal agentphysical entityentity
Inherited Hypernyms:leakeyanthropologistsocial scientistscientistpersonorganismliving thingwholeobjectphysical entityentity
Inherited Hypernyms:leakeypaleontologistscientistpersoncausal agentphysical entityentity
Inherited Hypernyms:leakeypaleontologistscientistpersonorganismliving thingwholeobjectphysical entityentity