leakey Meaning, Definition & Usage

1. noun 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)
   Richard Erskine Leakey; Richard Leakey.
   
2. noun English paleontologist (the wife of Louis Leakey) who discovered the Zinjanthropus skull that was 1,750,000 years old (1913-1996)
   Mary Leakey; Mary Douglas Leakey.
   
3. noun English paleontologist whose account of fossil discoveries in Tanzania changed theories of human evolution (1903-1972)
   Louis Leakey; Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey.
   

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