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Renowned anthropologist Louis Leakey chose Goodall to do this work precisely because she was not formally trained. When she turned up in Leakey's office in Tanzania in 1957, at age 23, Leakey ...

(Leakey later reclassified Zinjanthropus as an australopithecine; it is now generally known as Paranthropus boisei.) In time, and as the Leakey team uncovered more fossil material, Louis became ...

The Leakey family is synonymous with the search for the origins of humankind. The late Louis Leakey, born 100 years ago today, started a dynasty of fossil hunters who still explore the sediments of ...