The Olduvai Gorge in northern Tanzania has a geology that fossil-hunters love. A river cuts through several layers of strata with four distinct beds. Bed I, the oldest, is about 2 million years old.

When Richard Leakey set his mind on something he didn’t do it in half measures. That is why he knocked on doors of presidents, princes, kings and queens when he wanted to retain the heritage his ...

When Louis Leakey and Mary Nicol first met, he asked her to help with illustrations for his upcoming (1934) book Adam's Ancestors: An Up-to-Date Outline of What is Known about the Origin of Man.

The Leakeys are Kenya’s foremost anthropological family, whose story began with missionaries Canon Harry and Mary Leakey settling in Kabete where son Louis Leakey was born in 1903. Canon ‘Giteru’ ...

Richard Leakey has died. The famed anthropologist whose discoveries helped prove mankind began in Africa was 77 years old. Leakey was also a conservationist, leading the charge to try to wipe out the ...

See related article by Mary Leakey, "Preserving Africa's ancient art," Science digest, August 1984, pages 56-63, 81+ (VF-- Rock Art). siris_sil_178604 ...