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Richard Erskine Frere Leakey FRS (19 December 1944 – 2 January 2022) was a Kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist and politician. [1] Leakey held a number of official positions in Kenya, mostly in institutions of archaeology and wildlife conservation .
Louise Leakey was born in Nairobi, Kenya, to Kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist and politician Richard Leakey and British paleoanthropologist Meave Leakey in 1972, the same year that her paleoanthropologist grandfather, Louis Leakey, died.
Martin Nyaga Wambora, first Governor of Embu, former chairman of Kenya Airports Authority, successful Runyenjes MP and noted former Kenyan trade secretary; Samuel Kivuitu, Electoral Commissioner of Kenya (2013)
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 ...
Mary Leakey (1913–1996), archaeologist; wife of Louis Leakey [1] Meave Leakey (born 1942), palaeoanthropologist; wife of Richard Leakey; Richard Leakey (1944–2022), politician and palaeoanthropologist; son of Louis and Mary Leakey; Roger Leakey (born 1946), plant scientist and tropical agriculturalist; son of Douglas and Beryl and nephew of ...
In 1963, he joined the expeditions led by Richard Leakey, the son of Mary and Louis who followed in their footsteps as a paleoanthropologist. Kimeu accompanied him to the Omo River and Lake Rudolf (now Lake Turkana) in 1967. He quickly became Richard Leakey's right-hand man, assuming control of field operations in Leakey's absence.
Working with Richard Leakey, he was co-director of the East African Koobi Fora project. In 1966 he joined the anthropology department at the University of California, Berkeley and in 1983 he was appointed Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University where he was developing new research projects at the time of his death.
During Richard Leakey's original 1967 excavations several stone tools were found in association with Omo 1 at Kamoya's hominid site (KHS) but were not well described in the research literature. In the 2000s further excavations occurred at KHS in addition to two other sites: Awoke's hominid site (AHS) also located in Member 1 and the Bird's Nest ...