Louis Leakey

Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey (1903-1972) Paleoanthropologo, Primatologo et Archeologo britannic nascite in Kenya.

Louis Leakey
(left to right) Mary Douglas Nicol Leakey (1913-1996) and her husband Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey (1903-1972).jpg
Sexo mascule
Nascentia 1903-08-07 (Nairobi)
Decesso 1972-10-01 (London)
Causa de decesso infarcto cardiac
Ethnicitate gente anglese[*]
Citatania Kenya
Educate in St John's College[*], Weymouth College[*]
Occupation anthropologo[*], archaeologist[*], prehistorian[*], autobiographo[*], paleoanthropologist[*], paleontologist[*], curator[*]
Conjuge Mary Leakey[*], Henrietta Leakey[*]
Infantes Richard Leakey[*], Philip Leakey[*], Jonathan Leakey[*], Priscilla Muthoni Avern Leakey[*], Colin L. A. Leakey[*]
Parentes matre Mary Bazett[*] patre Harry Leakey[*]
Premios Vega Medal[*], Founder’s Medal[*], Prestwich Medal[*], Hubbard Medal[*], Silliman Memorial Lectures[*]
Lingua anglese
Identificatores
ISNI 0000 0001 2017 0427
VIAF 4972301
Commons Louis Leakey

Ille travaliava principalmente in Africa. Ille faceva un labor importante in le establimento del evolution human developpate in isse continente.

Insimul con su sponsa Mary Leakey illes excavava le terras de Olduvai. Inter lor principal discopertas il ha le cranio Zinjanthropus in 1959, in 1964 trovava le restos del Homo habilis e in 1967 le Kenyapithecus africanus.

Item laborava in le excavationes que demonstrava le existentia de humanos in California 50.000 annos ante.