Richard Leakey's life was a life of ironies and contrasts; a form two drop-out who became a CEO of a public institution and world-famous paleoanthropologist; a man who lost his vital organs but ...

Paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey, whose surname is tantamount to the origins of mankind, has died Sunday at his native Nairobi, it was announced. He was 77. “I have this afternoon ...

His bones were fossilized, and they lay undetected until 1985, when they were discovered by paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey. He was only about 10 years old when he died, revealed by the fact ...

Wang Center Theater, 100 Nicolls Road, Stony Brook will host the university’s February Provost Lecture, featuring ...

They and their children (especially Richard and his wife Meave) became known as the first family of paleontology. Louis Leakey was born in 1903 in Kenya, where his English parents were missionaries.