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6 days ago · Olduvai Hominid number 9 (OH 9), known as the Chellean Man, is a fossilized skull cap of an early hominin, found in LLK II, Olduvai Gorge by Louis S. B. Leakey in 1960. It is believed to be around 1.4 million years old.
1 day ago · Leakey was born in Kenya, where his father (Arundell) Gray Leakey was a farmer. Through his great-grandfather James Shirley Leakey, one of the eleven children of the portrait painter James Leakey, he is related to the missionary Rev Henry Leakey, and so to his son and grandson the paleoanthropologists Louis Leakey and Richard Leakey.
5 days ago · In the 1930s, paleoanthropologists Louis and Mary Leakey unearthed early stone artifacts at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania and named them the Oldowan tool culture.
3 days ago · Camp Leakey was created in 1971 by Canadian anthropologist and primatologist Dr. Birutė Galdikas. Named after Louis Leakey, a mentor and inspiration to Galdikas, the preservation was originally established to rescue and help nurture monkeys that had been victims of domestic capture.
3 days ago · Finally, when Jane was offered her dream job to study chimpanzees in Gombe National Park, Tanzania, the famous scientist, Louis Leakey, said a young woman couldn’t go alone and live in the forest. Jane’s mother offered to go with her. Jane went on to change the world by studying chimpanzees and proving they, too, were intelligent.
5 days ago · Louis Leakey chose her after she became an assistant secretary in his museum office. Her father led safari expeditions in Africa. She was a zoologist from Cambridge.
3 days ago · Under the mentorship of anthropologist Louis Leakey, her initial mission was to observe and record the behavior of chimpanzees. What followed was a lifetime of pioneering research, transforming her into one of the most influential primatologists and environmental advocates of the twentieth century.
