Leakey

Words with a similar base: Leakey, Louis_Leakey, Louis_Seymour_Bazett_Leakey, Mary_Douglas_Leakey, Mary_Leakey, Richard_Erskine_Leakey, Richard_Leakey

'Leakey'

[leakey.n.01] as in: English 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)

'Leakey'

[leakey.n.02] as in: English paleontologist (the wife of Louis Leakey) who discovered the Zinjanthropus skull that was 1,750,000 years old (1913-1996)

'Leakey'

[leakey.n.03] as in: English paleontologist whose account of fossil discoveries in Tanzania changed theories of human evolution (1903-1972)