Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey (7 August 1903 – 1 October 1972) was a Kenyan-British palaeoanthropologist and archaeologist whose work was important in demonstrating that humans evolved in Africa, particularly through discoveries made at Olduvai Gorge with his wife, fellow palaeoanthropologist Mary Leakey.

Louis Leakey (born August 7, 1903, Kabete, Kenya—died October 1, 1972, London, England) was a Kenyan archaeologist and anthropologist, a member of the distinguished Leakey family of scholars and researchers, whose fossil discoveries in East Africa proved that human beings were far older than had previously been believed and that human ...

Apr 2, 2014 · Paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey, with wife Mary Leakey, established an excavation site at Olduvai Gorge to search for fossils. The team made unprecedented …

Louis Leakey (L.S.B. Leakey, 7 August 1903 – 1 October 1972) was a Kenyan archaeologist, anthropologist and naturalist. His work was important in establishing human evolutionary development in East Africa .

Aug 7, 2018 · Louis Leakey (b. 1903, d. 1972) had a tremendous impact on the world’s understanding of human origins. He and Mary Leakey made many important fossil and stone tool discoveries, and he wrote 20 books and more than 150 scientific articles in his lifetime.

Louis Leakey radically changed the world’s understanding of our shared human story and firmly established Africa as the birthplace of our species. This once-controversial view is now widely accepted as true.

Jun 13, 2012 · Louis Leakey was not the first person to ever find an ancient hominid fossil. But more than anyone else, he promoted and popularized the study of human evolution.

Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey was a passionate, charismatic, and sometimes controversial archaeologist and anthropologist whose revolutionary theories and dramatic discoveries contributed immensely to the field of anthropology.

Paleontologist, archaeologist and anthropologist Louis Leakey was born at Kabete, Kenya on August 7, 1903. His British parents were missionaries sent to live among the Kikuyu, Kenya’s largest tribe.

Aug 7, 2003 · Today marks 100 years since the birth of Louis Leakey, the patriarch of the first family of human fossils. NPR's Christopher Joyce reports for National Geographic Radio Expeditions.