Richard Erskine Frere Leakey (born in 1944) was a British archaeologist, son of Louis and Mary Leakey.

Short Biography:

In 1972 he discovered at Lake Turkana, Kenya, an ape-form skull, estimated to be about 2.9 million years old; it had some human characteristics and a brain capacity of 800 cm3.

In 1984 his team found an almost complete skeleton of Homo erectus some 1.6 million years old.

Why is Richard Leakey famous?

Richard Leakey is a politician, paleoanthropologist and conservationist.

Richard Leakey Lists

	1944 births
	Living people
	Anglo-African people
	Human evolution theorists
	Kenyan anthropologists
	Kenyan archaeologists
	Kenyan atheists
	Kenyan conservationists
	Kenyan paleontologists
	Kenyan politicians
	Kenyan people of English descent
	Paleoanthropologists
	People from Nairobi
	State University of New York at Stony Brook faculty

 

Richard Leakey Movies
Call of Life: Facing the Mass Extinction
Richard Leakey Filmography

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Category: Politicians  - ( Politicians Archive)

Date Added: 09 May '12

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