Mary Leakey
Also known as Mary Douglas Leakey, M. D. Leakey, Mary D. Leakey, Mary Douglas Nicol, Mary Nicol, Mary Nicol Leakey, Mary Douglas Nicol Leakey
British paleoanthropologist (1913-1996)
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- Olduvai Gorge
- Africa's Vanishing Art
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- A global reference for human genetic variation
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- Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults
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Mary Douglas Leakey, FBA (née Nicol, 6 February 1913 – 9 December 1996) was a British paleoanthropologist who discovered the first fossilised Proconsul skull, an extinct ape believed to be ancestral to humans. She also discovered the robust Zinjanthropus skull at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, eastern Africa. For much of her career she worked with her husband, Louis Leakey, at Olduvai Gorge, where they uncovered fossils of ancient hominines and the earliest hominins, as well as the stone tools produced by the latter group. 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.
During her career, Leakey discovered fifteen new species of animal. She also brought about the naming of a new genus.
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