What is Mary Leakey's full name?
Mary Douglas Nicol
Mary Leakey date of birth:
February 6, 1913
How old was Mary Leakey when died?
83
Where was Mary Leakey born?
London, England
When did Mary Leakey die?
December 9, 1996
Mary Leakey body shape:
Average
What color is Mary Leakey's hair?
Salt and Pepper
Is Mary Leakey gay or straight?
Straight
What is Mary Leakey's ethnicity?
White
What is Mary Leakey nationality?
British
What is Mary Leakey's occupation?
Archeologist
Mary Leakey claim to fame:
She discovered the first fossilized Proconsul skull, an extinct ape now believed to be ancestral to humans, and also discovered the robust Zinjanthropus skull at Olduvai Gorge. She also discovered the Laetoli footprints.
Mary Leakey family:
Jonathan Leakey (son) (Paleoanthropologist), Richard Leakey (son) (Paleoanthropologist), Philip Leakey (son)
Who has Mary Leakey worked with?
Mortimer Wheeler (teacher)
Short Biography
Mary Leakey (6 February 1913 – 9 December 1996) was a British paleoanthropologist who discovered the first fossilised Proconsul skull, an extinct ape now believed to be ancestral to humans. She also discovered the robust Zinjanthropus skull at Olduvai Gorge. For much of her career she worked with her husband, Louis Leakey, in the Olduvai Gorge, in Tanzania, East Africa; they uncovered fossils there of ancient hominines and the earliest hominins as well as the stone tools produced by the latter group (see Terminology, for a discussion of "hominine" and related, similar terms). Mary Leakey developed a system for classifying the stone tools found at Olduvai. She discovered the Laetoli footprints, and at the Laetoli site she discovered hominin fossils that were more than 3.75 million years old.