Richard Leakey often said the things he liked doing best were those things that people said couldn’t be done. He also said he had no interest in being popular; rather, he was interested in ...

“Richard Leakey’s discovery of fossil sediments at Koobi Fora has probably been responsible for producing close to half of the world’s evidence for human evolution,” Lawrence Martin ...

Richard Leakey has died. The famed anthropologist whose discoveries helped prove mankind began in Africa was 77 years old. Leakey was also a conservationist, leading the charge to try to wipe out ...

Dr Richard Leakey talks to President Moi at JKIA. [file, Standard] Leakey’s younger brother Philip (a KANU member who served in the Cabinet in 1992) was forced to assure Moi of his support for ...

Richard Leakey, paleoanthropologist, politician, explorer and environmentalist, gives a lecture on "Living Off the Grid" at the Wang Center at Stony Brook University in Stony Brook on Oct. 15, 2014.

NAIROBI, Kenya — Paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey, famous for fossil-finding and conservation work in his native Kenya, has died, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta announced Sunday. He was 77.

Richard Leakey, a renowned Kenyan conservationist whose work was frequently featured in film and television documentaries, died today at age 77. Details on what he died from and where were not ...

According to details published in Richard E Leakey: Master of Deceit written by Eustace Gitonga and Dr Martin Pickford, the prayers were timed to take place a few weeks before the kidney transplant.

OBITUARY 28 January 2022 Richard Leakey (1944–2022) Palaeontologist of human origins, conservationist and politician.

Richard Leakey, . . St. Martin's, $25.95 (319pp) ISBN 978-0-312-20626-0 In conservation and wildlife preservation, paleontology and East African politics, few have mattered more than Leakey (The ...

As Richard Leakey adopted the family profession, his father left it. Louis grew interested in the great apes, and launched the careers of primatologists such as Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey.

As Richard Leakey adopted the family profession, his father left it. Louis grew interested in the great apes, and launched the careers of primatologists such as Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey.