Louis+Leakey

Louis Leakey Louis Leakey was responsible for radically altering our understanding of human evolution. He and his wife, Mary Leakey, discovered ancient human-like bones throughout Africa.

Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey was born on August 7, 1903. He was born in the Kabete Mission in Kenya, where his parents served as English missionaries.He grew up in Africa, but studied in Cambridge. There, he had a rugby accident, which left him unable to finish his studies. However, he continued on with his paleontological research, which he got so much credit for it that Cambridge awarded him his PhD. In 1932, Leakey discovered fossils that were claimed to be the oldest humans in history. However, due to a report on Leakey's work by Percy Boswell, Leakey's reputation was clearly damaged. Later on in his life, he married Mary Nicol, and together, they went on archeological explorations. In 1959, Mary discovered one of the most human-like bones that they had ever discovered, and for this, they received high credit. Louis Leakey died at age 69 in October of 1972. I believe that Louis Leakey is linked to evolution, because he believed that humans have evolved, physically at least, throughout time. As his discoveries will verify, humans have not always looked the same, and have altogether changed.


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