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English paleontologist whose account of fossil discoveries in Tanzania changed theories of human evolution (1903-1972)
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leakey
Alternative clues for the word leakey
- Plumbers' favorite anthropologist?
- "Stone-Age Africa" author
- Anthropologist Louis
- He was appointed director of a wildlife preserve in Kenya but resigned under political pressure (born in 1944)
- English paleontologist (the wife of Louis Leakey) who discovered the Zinjanthropus skull that was 1,750,000 years old (1913-1996)
- English paleontologist (son of Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey) who continued the work of his parents
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Gazetteer
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Population (2000): 387 Housing Units (2000): 211 Land area (2000): 0.556992 sq. miles (1.442603 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.556992 sq. miles (1.442603 sq. km) FIPS code: 42004 Located within: Texas ...
Wikipedia
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Leakey is a small, undistinguished lunar impact crater that is located in an area of rough terrain in the eastern part of the Moon . The immediate area is not notable for crater features, although some distance to the southwest is the crater pair of Capella ...
Usage examples of leakey.
Leakey emphasized that the fossil record of a few million years ago is replete with a great variety of manlike forms, an interesting number of which are found with holes or fractures in their skulls.
Leakey and Lewin of a mountain gorilla, I do not believe I would envy this person.