Word: leakeys
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...anthropologists have been convinced that the first member of the genus Homo, or true man (as opposed to the hominids, or man-apes), was a beetle-browed, stoop-shouldered brute called Homo erectus, who appeared in Africa about a million or so years ago. But two years ago, Richard Leakey, following in the footsteps of his famed anthropologist father, the late Louis B. Leakey, undermined that theory. Digging near Kenya's Lake Rudolf, he uncovered fragments that were assembled into a nearly complete manlike skull that is at least 2.6 million years old. Leakey's find suggested that...
...scientist, educator and the former secretary of the Smithsonian Institution; of cancer; in Washington, D.C. During his 11 years with the Smithsonian, Carmichael expanded and modernized "the nation's attic," and later, as vice president of the National Geographic Society, he sponsored the work of Archaeologist Louis S.B. Leakey and Oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau...
Died. Dr. Louis S. B. Leakey, 69, bluff, indomitable archaeologist who argued that his excavations added a million years to man's known presence on earth; of a heart attack; in London. From the Olduvai Gorge in what is now Tanzania, Leakey and his wife, Mary, unearthed the 1.75 million-year-old remains of the Zinjanthropus (East Africa Man) in 1959. One year later they uncovered the slightly older remains of the Homo habilis, which Leakey identified as the first primitive tool-user. These discoveries, Leakey asserted, demonstrated that different species of men existed simultaneously and proved that their...
...check his theory, Bada dated a number of objects, including an ancient hominid bone dug up from East Africa's Olduvai Gorge by Anthropologist Louis S.B. Leakey. Its age, based on amino-acid dating, turned out to be 135,000 years-almost exactly the same as that deduced by Leakey from indirect geological evidence. Bada is still incredulous over the seemingly accurate results obtained by using his new clock. "It was so obvious and simple," he says, "I was just amazed that it hadn't been discovered before...
...Leakey and the Dawn of Man. The new channel five comes on strong with a profile of the famous anthropologist at work. 7 p.m., March 25, Chan...