Summary:
Provides a personal history of anthropologist Louis Leakey. Describes his early life, education and influences. Examines his work, scientific findings and effect on Jane Goodall's study of chimpanzees in the wild.
Both of Louis Leakey's parents were missionaries in Kenya and he was born there in 1903 where he grew up with African children and learned to hunt and speak their language fluently. He was influenced early on by fossil and rock finds in Africa, playing in riverbeds as a child. He attended Cambridge University, a major in anthropology, and in his year off he joined a fossil expedition in Tanzania. He graduated from the university shortly after the first human remains were found in Africa, further influencing Leakey's interest in fossils and paleontology. Louis Leakey met his wife, Mary in 1939 while working on the book Adam's Ancestors: An Up-to-Date Outline of What is Known about the Origin of Man Scientific Findings. A few years after the two met, they got married and had three children,.....
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