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Boswell of reneging on his word, but Boswell asserted he had made no such promise, and now having public opinion on his side, warned Louis to withdraw the claim. Louis was not only forced to retract the accusation in his final field report in June 1935 but also to recant his support of Reck. Louis was through at Cambridge. Even his mentors turned on him.
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Olduvai, uncovering dozens of sites for a broad sampling, as was his method. They were named after the excavator: SHK (Sam Howard's karongo), BK (Peter Bell's), SWK (Sam White's), MNK (Mary Nicol's). Louis and Mary conducted a temporary clinic for the
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William E. Cutler to the site. Louis applied and was hired to locate the site and manage the administrative details. In 1924 they departed for Africa. They never found a complete dinosaur skeleton, and Louis was recalled from the site by Cambridge
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that I had as pets in my childhood days—and that eventually I had to house in large cages—it makes me sad. It makes me sadder still, however, and also very angry, when I think of the innumerable adult animals and birds deliberately caught and locked up for the so-called 'pleasure' and 'education' of
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Non-humanoid fossils and tools were extracted from the ground in large numbers. Frida delayed joining her husband and was less enthusiastic about him on behalf of
Priscilla. She did arrive eventually, however, and Louis put her to work. Frida's site became FLK, for Frida Leakey's Karongo ("gully").
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Italian menace ended, but the Japanese began to reconnoiter with a view toward landing in force. Louis found himself in counter-intelligence work, which he performed with zest and imagination. In the same year, their daughter Deborah was born, but died at the age of three months. They
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tribe for use as harpoons and the sites could not now be located. To make matters worse, all the photos Louis took were ruined by a light leak in the camera. After an irritating and fruitless two-month search, Boswell left for
England, promising, as Louis understood it, not to publish a word until
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In November 1931, Louis led an expedition to Olduvai whose members included Reck, whom Louis allowed to enter the gorge first. Leakey had bet Reck that Leakey would find Acheulean tools within the first 24 hours, which he did. These verified the provenance of the 1913 find, now called Olduvai Man.
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and persuaded Senior Chief Koinange, who designated a committee of chiefs, to help him describe the Kikuyu the way they had been. Mary excavated at Waterfall Cave. She fell ill with double pneumonia and was near death for two weeks in the hospital in Nairobi, during which time her mother was sent
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dated 9 March 1935, destroying Reck's and Louis's dates of the fossils and questioning Louis's competence. Despite the searches for the iron markers, Boswell averred that "the earlier expedition (of 1931–32) neither marked the localities on the ground nor recorded the sites on a map." In a field
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The government brought in British troops and formed a home guard of 20,000 Kikuyu. During this time, Louis played a difficult and contradictory role. He sided with the settlers, serving as their spokesman and intelligence officer, helping to ferret out bands of guerrillas. On the other hand, he
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was born. In 1945 the family's income from police work all but vanished. By now Louis was getting plenty of job offers but he chose to stay on in Kenya as Curator of the Coryndon Museum, with an annual salary and a house, but more importantly, to continue palaeoanthropological research.
511:, a private boys' school, when he was 16 years old. In about three years, he did not do well and complained of hazing and rules that he considered an infringement on his freedom. Advised by one teacher to seek employment in a bank, he secured help from an English teacher in applying to
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that the service was more directly British; in fact, he refers to "my counterpart in military intelligence." However, Louis would not be revealing everything he knew. Morell portrays him as having been in police work before being drafted. She had personal access to the surviving
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and turned over the acting directorship of Coryndon to a subordinate. He created the Centre for Prehistory and Paleontology on the same grounds, moved his collections to it, and appointed himself director. This was his new operations center. He opened another excavation at
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In 1958, Leakey founded the Tigoni Primate Research Center with Cynthia Booth, on her farm north of Nairobi. Later it was the National Primate Research Center, currently the Institute of Primate Research, now in Nairobi. As the Tigoni center, it funded Leakey's
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While the Leakeys were at Lake Victoria, the Kikuyu struck at the European settlers of the Kenyan highlands, who seemed to have the upper hand and were insisting on a "white" government of a "white" Africa. In 1949 the Kikuyu formed a secret society, the
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In denial, the family did not face the question of a memorial marker for a year. When Richard went to place a stone on the grave he found one already there, courtesy of Louis' former secretary Rosalie Osborn. The inscription was signed with the letters,
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wrote that because of Louis's involvement with the Calico Hills site she had lost academic respect for him and that the Calico excavation project was "catastrophic to his professional career and was largely responsible for the parting of our ways".
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The geology of Olduvai was known. In 1913, Reck had extricated a skeleton from Bed II in the gorge wall. He argued that it must have the date of the bed, which was believed to be 600,000 years, in the mid-
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for a grant to write a study of the Kikuyu and it was given late in 1936 along with a salary for two years. In January 1937 the Leakeys travelled to Kenya. Colin would not see his father for 20 years.
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and numerous talks and articles. He recommended a multi-racial government, land reform in the highlands, a wage hike for the Kikuyu, and many other reforms, most of which were eventually adopted.
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until 1956, when, deprived of its leadership and supplies, it had to disperse. The state of emergency lasted until 1960. In 1963 Kenya became independent, with Jomo Kenyatta as prime minister.
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Louis received his PhD in 1930 at the age of 27. His first child, a daughter named Priscilla Muthoni Leakey, was born in 1931. His headaches and epilepsy returned, and he was prescribed
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Louis conducted interrogations, analyzed handwriting, wrote radio broadcasts and took on regular police investigations. He loved a good mystery of any sort. The white leadership of the
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and detained the committees. Following Louis' suggestion, thousands of Kikuyu were placed in re-education camps and resettled in new villages. The rebellion continued from bases under
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together for a brief romance, which she broke off. Richard began to assume more and more of his father's responsibilities, which Louis resisted, but in the end was forced to accept.
751:, whom he invited to verify the sites for himself. Arriving at Kanam and Kanjera in 1935, they found that the iron markers Louis had used to mark the sites had been removed by the
3648:, Chapter 6, it was the chief who suggested she excavate. He knew artifacts were being washed from the cave. Louis and Mary had moved into a hut in his compound at his invitation.
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in which he was required to be proficient, even though no one there could test him on it. The university accepted an affidavit from a Kikuyu chief signed with a thumbprint.
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2777:"Serjeant Nigel Gray Leakey | War Casualty Details"
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4097:"Defeating Mau Mau – 1954, Page iii by L. S. B. Leakey"
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Adam's Ancestors: The Evolution of Man and His Culture
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3568:"Human Remains from Kanam and Kanjera, Kenya Colony"
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Stone Age Africa: an Outline of Prehistory in Africa
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3897:Morell Chapter 23, "Mining Hominids at Olduvai".
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3915:Morell, Chapter 30, "An End and a Beginning".
3811:Morell Chapter 16, "The Human with Ability."
2738:"Eliza Hubbard Woolmer, wife of James Leakey"
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3845:Historical Dictionary of Early North America
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2705:(online ed.). Oxford University Press.
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3752:Taylor, R. E.; Aitken, M. J., eds. (1997).
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5080:Archaeological history of Eastern Africa
3470:"Leakey, Henrietta Wilfrida (1902–1993)"
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5090:Fellows of St John's College, Cambridge
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3476:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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2702:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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48:Louis Leakey with his wife Mary in 1962
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5145:Kenyan emigrants to the United Kingdom
5075:Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge
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4062:"Prehistory and Physical Anthropology"
3981:Dale, Peterson; Goodall, Jane (2008).
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3089:Animals of East Africa: The Wild realm
2830:from the original on 22 September 2012
2783:. Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
1414:in Johannesburg, primarily because of
713:, which the family named "The Close".
543:In 1922, the British had been awarded
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4578:Chimpanzee–human last common ancestor
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3952:"A national primate centre for Kenya"
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3374:"Collection search: You searched for"
3335:Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology
2978:The Miocene Hominoidea of East Africa
2965:White African: an Early Autobiography
2896:The Stone Age Culture of Kenya Colony
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5135:People from Girton, Cambridgeshire
4583:Gorilla–human last common ancestor
4515:Kinshasa Declaration on Great Apes
3622:; Homo kanamensis is an intrusion.
3566:Boswell, P. G. H. (9 March 1935).
3172:List of hominina (hominid) fossils
1448:, near the graves of his parents.
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4593:Gibbon–human last common ancestor
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3950:Else, James G. (1 January 1983).
3776:Morell, Chapter 14, "Mary's Dig".
3224:"The Vanishing Man of the Forest"
2787:from the original on 8 April 2022
2748:from the original on 6 April 2022
1296:in London, received a visit from
1294:British Museum of Natural History
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565:British Museum of Natural History
416:from 1960 to 1970; Julia married
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4525:Great Apes Survival Partnership
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726:Royal Anthropological Institute
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4211:Works by or about Louis Leakey
4196:, in CD Groliers Encyclopedia.
4155:"The Old Man of Olduvai Gorge"
3729:Morell, Chapter 12, "Our Man".
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3054:With Peter Schmidt. Online at
2818:Lean, Mary (26 January 2007).
2623:Lt. Gen. Arundell David Leakey
1006:' need never have taken place.
623:, which he excavated in 1928.
603:St. John's College, Cambridge.
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3987:. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
3520:African Archaeological Review
3360:10.1080/00438243.1988.9980056
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2935:Kenya: Contrasts and Problems
2508:Jonathan Harry Erskine Leakey
2461:Maj. Gen. Arundell Rea Leakey
2210:Arundell Gray Arundell Leakey
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1292:In 1959 Leakey, while at the
879:Kenya: Contrasts and Problems
834:Return to British East Africa
424:from 1964 to 1966; their son
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3500:UK public library membership
3275:According to Blake Edgar in
2922:The Stone Age races of Kenya
2719:UK public library membership
2495:Richard Erskine Frere Leakey
1488:Louis Leakey was married to
1027:Louis had attempted to warn
513:St John's College, Cambridge
422:Bishop of Rwanda and Burundi
373:, in the highlands north of
326:When I think back... of the
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4189:, the leakey.com biography.
3984:The Woman Who Redefined Man
3554:Imperial College of Science
3512:Read about these events in
3441:Adam, Apes and Anthropology
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3080:With Vanne Morris Goodall.
3007:Started in 1935. Names the
2232:Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey
1412:University of Witwatersrand
1309:National Geographic Society
1218:National Geographic Society
1140:National Geographic Society
938:. Jonathan was attacked by
447:over to zoos. Louis read a
258:Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey
10:
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4598:List of fictional primates
4450:Neanderthal genome project
2926:Proposes Homo kanamensis.
1345:
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1213:at 1.4 million years old.
1112:, famously identified as "
1065:Work in palaeoanthropology
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518:Louis matriculated at the
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4530:International Primate Day
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4480:Borneo Orangutan Survival
4435:Chimpanzee genome project
4407:
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4143:, Greenwood Press, 2005.
4009:"The Leakey family - PBS"
3438:Morton, Glenn R. (1997).
2986:. Volume I of the series
2742:Artsandculture.google.com
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414:Archbishop of East Africa
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4140:The Leakeys: a Biography
3631:The initial chapters of
3101:Olduvai Gorge, 1965–1967
2988:Fossil Mammals of Africa
2854:
2477:Colin Louis Avern Leakey
2223:Henrietta Wilfrida Avern
1484:Prominent family members
1130:, a decision opposed by
971:fossil up to that time.
428:was later the Bishop of
391:translation of the Bible
110:Pioneering the study of
76:East Africa Protectorate
4556:List of individual apes
4535:Nonhuman Rights Project
4066:American Anthropologist
4029:"The Leakey Foundation"
3930:www.panafprehistory.org
3906:Morell, Chapters 27-30.
3401:3 February 2007 at the
3282:7 February 2007 at the
3076:Unveiling Man's Origins
1830:Caroline Woolmer Leakey
1460:Prominent organizations
1207:, contemporaneous with
1149:In 1960, geophysicists
1136:Melville Bell Grosvenor
730:Gertrude Caton-Thompson
520:University of Cambridge
499:Attendance at Cambridge
309:University of Cambridge
4445:Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka
3956:Kenya Past and Present
3485:10.1093/ref:odnb/52219
3020:Mau Mau and the Kikuyu
2992:Natural History Museum
2872:First publication date
2711:10.1093/ref:odnb/16244
1333:In her autobiography,
1264:came up with the name
1233:George Gaylord Simpson
1164:assistants, including
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936:provided by the museum
840:female genital cutting
829:In British East Africa
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363:Church Mission Society
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5100:Kenyan archaeologists
4460:Lone Drøscher Nielsen
4033:The Leakey Foundation
3644:According to Louis's
3262:Louis reports in his
3199:The Leakey Foundation
3167:(with link directory)
3143:Calico Early Man Site
2984:Wilfrid Le Gros Clark
2469:Agnes Florence Leakey
1609:Eliza Hubbard Woolmer
1522:during World War II.
1288:Calico Early Man Site
1228:Kenyapithecus wickeri
1132:Wilfrid Le Gros Clark
1090:, 4th ed., final page
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1004:the Mau Mau rebellion
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913:King's African Rifles
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768:On the road in Africa
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461:prehistory of Britain
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278:palaeoanthropological
5125:Paleoanthropologists
4796:Tapanuli orangutan (
4778:Sumatran orangutan (
4440:Human Genome Project
4187:"Louis S. B. Leakey"
4172:LeakeyFoundation.org
4159:Smithsonian Magazine
3873:, 1984, pp. 142–144.
3164:List of fossil sites
2954:Edinburgh University
2041:Rev. Arundell Leakey
1822:James Shirley Leakey
1407:system for fossils.
975:Charles Watson Boise
904:against the Italian
902:Ethiopian guerrillas
672:Reversals of fortune
559:. Louis was told by
549:Tanganyika Territory
262:palaeoanthropologist
142: 1928;
5140:White Kenyan people
5120:People from Nairobi
4787:Bornean orangutan (
4485:Primate archaeology
4182:TalkOrigins Archive
4137:Mary Bowman-Kruhm,
4113:The second volume,
3871:Disclosing the past
3843:Cameron B. Wesson,
3584:1935Natur.135..371B
3195:"The Leakey Family"
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1298:Ruth DeEtte Simpson
1199:), in context with
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1138:, president of the
1109:Paranthropus boisei
1040:Kenya African Union
1038:, president of the
1029:Sir Philip Mitchell
649:Olduvai Gorge 2011.
453:Days Before History
355:British East Africa
4415:Great ape language
4373:Tapanuli orangutan
4353:Sumatran orangutan
4103:on 18 August 2009.
4085:on 22 August 2009.
3311:Ancestral Passions
3228:The New York Times
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2241:Mary Douglas Nicol
1557:Leakey family tree
1514:. Louis's cousin,
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3793:. 7 February 2010
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1311:and commenced
1286:Main article:
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1241:condensed milk
1176:sagittal crest
1155:Garniss Curtis
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1036:Jomo Kenyatta
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844:Jomo Kenyatta
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5044:Paleontology
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4893:Chimpanzee (
4885:
4870:
4849:
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4797:
4788:
4779:
4769:(Orangutans)
4761:
4697:(great apes)
4510:Research ban
4470:Elgin Center
4455:Willie Smits
4430:Jane Goodall
4376:
4366:
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4125:Bibliography
4114:
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3822:Homo habilis
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3795:. Retrieved
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3690:, Chapter 9.
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3678:, Chapter 8.
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3620:Homo habilis
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3490:23 September
3488:. Retrieved
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3426:Vivian Fuchs
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3389:
3377:. Retrieved
3368:
3354:(1): 57–69.
3351:
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3331:Darren Tanke
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3300:, Chapter 8.
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3243:
3231:. Retrieved
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3202:. Retrieved
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3153:Nigel Leakey
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2231:
1824:(1824–1871)
1601:James Leakey
1524:
1512:Colin Leakey
1502:
1487:
1453:
1450:
1443:
1439:heart attack
1436:
1424:
1420:South Africa
1409:
1398:
1389:
1374:The Trimates
1362:Jane Goodall
1351:
1348:The Trimates
1342:The Trimates
1332:
1324:Vance Haynes
1321:
1306:
1291:
1282:Calico Hills
1275:
1269:
1266:Homo habilis
1265:
1262:Raymond Dart
1253:Homo habilis
1251:
1249:
1237:Miocene Lady
1236:
1226:
1215:
1210:Paranthropus
1208:
1205:Homo erectus
1204:
1194:
1185:
1181:Telanthropus
1179:
1170:
1166:Kamoya Kimeu
1159:
1148:
1143:
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1123:Paranthropus
1121:
1118:Robert Broom
1113:
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1094:
1087:
1078:Homo sapiens
1076:
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1052:
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1018:
1014:, Chapter 18
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983:Jane Goodall
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928:Olorgesailie
917:
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846:, later the
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570:
561:C. W. Hobley
542:
530:
524:
517:
502:
480:neurasthenia
473:
452:
441:
434:
403:
359:James Leakey
348:
341:
325:
305:The Trimates
293:Jane Goodall
286:
257:
256:
246:paleontology
227:
187:Colin Leakey
183:5, including
88:(1972-10-01)
36:Louis Leakey
29:
5065:1972 deaths
5060:1903 births
4886:P. paniscus
4841:G. beringei
4789:P. pygmaeus
4600:(non-human)
4564:(non-human)
4558:(non-human)
4465:Ian Redmond
4420:Dian Fossey
4367:P. pygmaeus
4328:G. beringei
4299:P. paniscus
4261:ape species
4038:6 September
3819:section of
3266:, Chapter 6
2994:in London.
2759:(1827-1881)
2510:(1940–2021)
2498:(1944–2022)
2480:(1933–2018)
2471:(1917–2006)
2464:(1915–1999)
2455:(1914–2013)
2446:(1913–1941)
2244:(1913–1996)
2235:(1903–1972)
2226:(1902–1993)
2212:(1885–1954)
2205:(1873–1925)
2068:(1868–1940)
2043:(1853–1924)
1833:(1827–1881)
1611:(1793–1855)
1604:(1775–1865)
1490:Mary Leakey
1427:Dian Fossey
1378:chimpanzees
1366:Dian Fossey
1335:Mary Leakey
1223:Fort Ternan
1059:Mount Kenya
1055:martial law
655:Pleistocene
589:Elmenteitan
505:World War I
432:in Rwanda.
408:, Anglican
344:, Chapter 4
297:Dian Fossey
274:Mary Leakey
238:Archaeology
155:Mary Leakey
128:Frida Avern
99:Nationality
5054:Categories
4925:H. sapiens
4850:G. gorilla
4830:(Gorillas)
4734:Haplorhini
4732:Suborder:
4695:Hominidae
4614:Monkey Day
4604:Great apes
4505:Personhood
4338:G. gorilla
4305:Chimpanzee
4280:H. sapiens
3962:(1): 35–39
3935:22 October
3502:required.)
3233:8 December
3204:24 January
3181:References
3067:Volume 1.
3024:Online at
2721:required.)
2486:Meave Epps
1395:Last years
1386:orangutans
985:to Gombe.
868:Hyrax Hill
745:Winam Gulf
734:Mary Nicol
621:Kariandusi
457:H. R. Hall
426:Ken Barham
365:among the
330:cat and a
319:See also:
315:Background
64:1903-08-07
4814:Homininae
4780:P. abelii
4744:Hominidae
4708:Kingdom:
4495:Legal and
4357:P. abelii
4347:Orangutan
3966:6 January
3556:, London.
3011:Culture.
2665:(b. 1970)
2661:Emmanuel,
2655:(b. 1972)
2626:(b. 1952)
2519:(b. 1949)
2489:(b. 1942)
1416:apartheid
1401:arthritis
1390:Primates.
1317:artifacts
969:Proconsul
940:army ants
870:and then
659:Acheulean
640:Hans Reck
617:Acheulean
568:in 1925.
557:Tendaguru
555:fossils,
532:viva voce
488:Hampshire
449:gift book
437:governess
412:and then
393:into the
114:in Africa
4984:Primates
4957:Category
4914:(Humans)
4884:Bonobo (
4862:Hominini
4753:Ponginae
4728:Primates
4722:Mammalia
4716:Chordata
4714:Phylum:
4710:Animalia
4652:Category
4573:Bushmeat
3666:Leakeys.
3399:Archived
3379:14 March
3280:Archived
3137:See also
2828:Archived
2785:Archived
2781:cwgc.org
2746:Archived
2249:3 others
2217:5 others
1838:9 others
1498:Tanzania
1382:gorillas
1354:primates
1328:geofacts
1302:scrapers
1190:Piltdown
1106:at FLK,
1085:—
1009:—
950:In 1944
789:region.
619:site of
553:dinosaur
484:Boscombe
430:Cyangugu
383:braziers
338:—
177:Children
5032:History
5020:Biology
5008:Animals
4996:Mammals
4970:Portals
4923:Human (
4824:Gorilla
4726:Order:
4720:Class:
4568:Bigfoot
4551:Primate
4544:Related
4318:Gorilla
4213:at the
4134:, 1995.
3885:Science
3700:Memoirs
3688:Memoirs
3676:Memoirs
3663:Memoirs
3659:Memoirs
3646:Memoirs
3602:4079483
3580:Bibcode
3333:of the
3298:Memoirs
3287:beard".
3264:Memoirs
3250:Science
3009:Olduwan
2834:8 April
2791:8 April
2752:6 April
1494:Laetoli
1473:Angels.
1201:Oldowan
1097:Oldowan
1022:Mau Mau
863:Nairobi
859:Kiambaa
815:Memoirs
779:Laetoli
701:Scandal
691:Kanjera
666:Luminal
527:Swahili
375:Nairobi
168:
160:
148:
136:
132:
119:Spouses
4389:family
4385:Gibbon
4295:Bonobo
4259:Extant
4147:
3991:
3797:17 May
3787:"OH 9"
3760:
3600:
3572:Nature
3496:
3448:
2862:Nature
2715:
2687:Notes:
1446:Limuru
1368:, and
1245:cognac
895:Sagana
891:pedlar
783:Kisese
775:Maasai
761:Nature
711:Girton
707:Foxton
444:Kikuyu
371:Kabete
367:Kikuyu
332:baboon
328:serval
299:, and
234:Fields
222:(1969)
217:(1968)
212:(1962)
206:Awards
72:Kabete
4763:Pongo
4634:Yowie
4624:Yeren
4276:Human
3817:Notes
3598:S2CID
3122:1977
3109:1974
3097:1970
3085:1969
3072:1969
3059:1965
3046:1954
3029:1953
3016:1952
2999:1951
2982:With
2974:1951
2961:1937
2944:1936
2931:1936
2918:1935
2905:1934
2892:1931
2882:Notes
2877:Title
2855:Books
1454:ILYUA
1162:Kamba
861:near
819:Nasty
787:Cheke
738:Colin
687:Kanam
455:, by
399:canon
162:(
158:
138:(
134:
4908:Homo
4629:Yeti
4270:Homo
4251:Apes
4145:ISBN
4040:2022
3989:ISBN
3968:2024
3937:2021
3799:2016
3758:ISBN
3492:2020
3446:ISBN
3381:2017
3235:2013
3206:2022
3039:Ylla
2836:2022
2793:2022
2754:2022
1384:and
1276:Homo
1274:and
1243:and
1153:and
1104:OH 5
926:and
689:and
264:and
144:div.
83:Died
54:Born
4872:Pan
4289:Pan
4014:PBS
3588:doi
3576:135
3481:doi
3356:doi
2707:doi
1418:in
963:in
753:Luo
369:at
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4180:,
4157:,
4064:,
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