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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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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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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.
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3607:, Chapter 2. Olduvai Man languished through World War II in a Berlin museum and then partially disappeared, but preservative applied to the bones took away any hope of an accurate C-14 date; however, neither can any evidence of intrusion be located. Kanjera Man is ancient, possibly
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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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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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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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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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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.
740:, 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
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2766:"Serjeant Nigel Gray Leakey | War Casualty Details"
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4086:"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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3557:"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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448:(1907), a juvenile fictional work illustrating the
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3886:Morell Chapter 23, "Mining Hominids at Olduvai".
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3904:Morell, Chapter 30, "An End and a Beginning".
3800:Morell Chapter 16, "The Human with Ability."
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3834:Historical Dictionary of Early North America
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2694:(online ed.). Oxford University Press.
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3741:Taylor, R. E.; Aitken, M. J., eds. (1997).
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3459:"Leakey, Henrietta Wilfrida (1902–1993)"
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5079:Fellows of St John's College, Cambridge
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3465:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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2691:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
889:, his first task was to supply and arm
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37:Louis Leakey with his wife Mary in 1962
5134:Kenyan emigrants to the United Kingdom
5064:Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge
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4051:"Prehistory and Physical Anthropology"
3970:Dale, Peterson; Goodall, Jane (2008).
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3078:Animals of East Africa: The Wild realm
2819:from the original on 22 September 2012
2772:. Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
1403:in Johannesburg, primarily because of
702:, which the family named "The Close".
532:In 1922, the British had been awarded
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4567:Chimpanzee–human last common ancestor
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3941:"A national primate centre for Kenya"
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3363:"Collection search: You searched for"
3324:Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology
2967:The Miocene Hominoidea of East Africa
2954:White African: an Early Autobiography
2885:The Stone Age Culture of Kenya Colony
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5124:People from Girton, Cambridgeshire
4572:Gorilla–human last common ancestor
4504:Kinshasa Declaration on Great Apes
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3555:Boswell, P. G. H. (9 March 1935).
3161:List of hominina (hominid) fossils
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3939:Else, James G. (1 January 1983).
3765:Morell, Chapter 14, "Mary's Dig".
3213:"The Vanishing Man of the Forest"
2776:from the original on 8 April 2022
2737:from the original on 6 April 2022
1285:in London, received a visit from
1283:British Museum of Natural History
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405:from 1960 to 1970; Julia married
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4514:Great Apes Survival Partnership
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4200:Works by or about Louis Leakey
4185:, in CD Groliers Encyclopedia.
4144:"The Old Man of Olduvai Gorge"
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3043:With Peter Schmidt. Online at
2807:Lean, Mary (26 January 2007).
2612:Lt. Gen. Arundell David Leakey
995:' need never have taken place.
612:, which he excavated in 1928.
592:St. John's College, Cambridge.
1:
3976:. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
3509:African Archaeological Review
3349:10.1080/00438243.1988.9980056
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2924:Kenya: Contrasts and Problems
2497:Jonathan Harry Erskine Leakey
2450:Maj. Gen. Arundell Rea Leakey
2199:Arundell Gray Arundell Leakey
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1281:In 1959 Leakey, while at the
868:Kenya: Contrasts and Problems
823:Return to British East Africa
413:from 1964 to 1966; their son
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3489:UK public library membership
3264:According to Blake Edgar in
2911:The Stone Age races of Kenya
2708:UK public library membership
2484:Richard Erskine Frere Leakey
1477:Louis Leakey was married to
1016:Louis had attempted to warn
502:St John's College, Cambridge
411:Bishop of Rwanda and Burundi
362:, in the highlands north of
315:When I think back... of the
7:
4178:, the leakey.com biography.
3973:The Woman Who Redefined Man
3543:Imperial College of Science
3501:Read about these events in
3430:Adam, Apes and Anthropology
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3069:With Vanne Morris Goodall.
2996:Started in 1935. Names the
2221:Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey
1401:University of Witwatersrand
1298:National Geographic Society
1207:National Geographic Society
1129:National Geographic Society
927:. Jonathan was attacked by
436:over to zoos. Louis read a
247:Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey
10:
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4587:List of fictional primates
4439:Neanderthal genome project
2915:Proposes Homo kanamensis.
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1101:, famously identified as "
1054:Work in palaeoanthropology
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4519:International Primate Day
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4469:Borneo Orangutan Survival
4424:Chimpanzee genome project
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4132:, Greenwood Press, 2005.
3998:"The Leakey family - PBS"
3427:Morton, Glenn R. (1997).
2975:. Volume I of the series
2731:Artsandculture.google.com
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403:Archbishop of East Africa
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4129:The Leakeys: a Biography
3620:The initial chapters of
3090:Olduvai Gorge, 1965–1967
2977:Fossil Mammals of Africa
2843:
2466:Colin Louis Avern Leakey
2212:Henrietta Wilfrida Avern
1473:Prominent family members
1119:, a decision opposed by
960:fossil up to that time.
417:was later the Bishop of
380:translation of the Bible
99:Pioneering the study of
65:East Africa Protectorate
4545:List of individual apes
4524:Nonhuman Rights Project
4055:American Anthropologist
4018:"The Leakey Foundation"
3919:www.panafprehistory.org
3895:Morell, Chapters 27-30.
3390:3 February 2007 at the
3271:7 February 2007 at the
3065:Unveiling Man's Origins
1819:Caroline Woolmer Leakey
1449:Prominent organizations
1196:, contemporaneous with
1138:In 1960, geophysicists
1125:Melville Bell Grosvenor
719:Gertrude Caton-Thompson
509:University of Cambridge
488:Attendance at Cambridge
298:University of Cambridge
4434:Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka
3945:Kenya Past and Present
3474:10.1093/ref:odnb/52219
3009:Mau Mau and the Kikuyu
2981:Natural History Museum
2861:First publication date
2700:10.1093/ref:odnb/16244
1322:In her autobiography,
1253:came up with the name
1222:George Gaylord Simpson
1153:assistants, including
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925:provided by the museum
829:female genital cutting
818:In British East Africa
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352:Church Mission Society
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5089:Kenyan archaeologists
4449:Lone Drøscher Nielsen
4022:The Leakey Foundation
3633:According to Louis's
3251:Louis reports in his
3188:The Leakey Foundation
3156:(with link directory)
3132:Calico Early Man Site
2973:Wilfrid Le Gros Clark
2458:Agnes Florence Leakey
1598:Eliza Hubbard Woolmer
1511:during World War II.
1277:Calico Early Man Site
1217:Kenyapithecus wickeri
1121:Wilfrid Le Gros Clark
1079:, 4th ed., final page
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993:the Mau Mau rebellion
989:
902:King's African Rifles
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757:On the road in Africa
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450:prehistory of Britain
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267:palaeoanthropological
5114:Paleoanthropologists
4785:Tapanuli orangutan (
4767:Sumatran orangutan (
4429:Human Genome Project
4176:"Louis S. B. Leakey"
4161:LeakeyFoundation.org
4148:Smithsonian Magazine
3862:, 1984, pp. 142–144.
3153:List of fossil sites
2943:Edinburgh University
2030:Rev. Arundell Leakey
1811:James Shirley Leakey
1396:system for fossils.
964:Charles Watson Boise
893:against the Italian
891:Ethiopian guerrillas
661:Reversals of fortune
548:. Louis was told by
538:Tanganyika Territory
251:palaeoanthropologist
131: 1928;
5129:White Kenyan people
5109:People from Nairobi
4776:Bornean orangutan (
4474:Primate archaeology
4171:TalkOrigins Archive
4126:Mary Bowman-Kruhm,
4102:The second volume,
3860:Disclosing the past
3832:Cameron B. Wesson,
3573:1935Natur.135..371B
3184:"The Leakey Family"
2877:
1494:paleoanthropologist
1287:Ruth DeEtte Simpson
1188:), in context with
1133:National Geographic
1127:, president of the
1098:Paranthropus boisei
1029:Kenya African Union
1027:, president of the
1018:Sir Philip Mitchell
638:Olduvai Gorge 2011.
442:Days Before History
344:British East Africa
4404:Great ape language
4362:Tapanuli orangutan
4342:Sumatran orangutan
4092:on 18 August 2009.
4074:on 22 August 2009.
3300:Ancestral Passions
3217:The New York Times
2876:
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2230:Mary Douglas Nicol
1546:Leakey family tree
1503:. Louis's cousin,
846:Louis returned to
837:president of Kenya
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3983:978-0-395-85405-1
3782:. 7 February 2010
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1162:Australopithecine
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980:Oxford University
782:Return to England
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1230:condensed milk
1165:sagittal crest
1144:Garniss Curtis
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4882:Chimpanzee (
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4786:
4777:
4768:
4758:(Orangutans)
4750:
4686:(great apes)
4499:Research ban
4459:Elgin Center
4444:Willie Smits
4419:Jane Goodall
4365:
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4103:
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3679:, Chapter 9.
3676:
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3667:, Chapter 8.
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3609:Homo habilis
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3479:23 September
3477:. Retrieved
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3415:Vivian Fuchs
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3366:. Retrieved
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3320:Darren Tanke
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3289:, Chapter 8.
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3142:Nigel Leakey
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1813:(1824–1871)
1590:James Leakey
1513:
1501:Colin Leakey
1491:
1476:
1442:
1439:
1432:
1428:heart attack
1425:
1413:
1409:South Africa
1398:
1387:
1378:
1363:The Trimates
1351:Jane Goodall
1340:
1337:The Trimates
1331:The Trimates
1321:
1313:Vance Haynes
1310:
1295:
1280:
1271:Calico Hills
1264:
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1255:Homo habilis
1254:
1251:Raymond Dart
1242:Homo habilis
1240:
1238:
1226:Miocene Lady
1225:
1215:
1204:
1199:Paranthropus
1197:
1194:Homo erectus
1193:
1183:
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1170:Telanthropus
1168:
1159:
1155:Kamoya Kimeu
1148:
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1116:
1112:Paranthropus
1110:
1107:Robert Broom
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1067:Homo sapiens
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1003:, Chapter 18
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972:Jane Goodall
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917:Olorgesailie
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441:
430:
423:
392:
348:James Leakey
337:
330:
314:
294:The Trimates
282:Jane Goodall
275:
246:
245:
235:paleontology
216:
176:Colin Leakey
172:5, including
77:(1972-10-01)
25:Louis Leakey
18:
5054:1972 deaths
5049:1903 births
4875:P. paniscus
4830:G. beringei
4778:P. pygmaeus
4589:(non-human)
4553:(non-human)
4547:(non-human)
4454:Ian Redmond
4409:Dian Fossey
4356:P. pygmaeus
4317:G. beringei
4288:P. paniscus
4250:ape species
4027:6 September
3808:section of
3255:, Chapter 6
2983:in London.
2748:(1827-1881)
2499:(1940–2021)
2487:(1944–2022)
2469:(1933–2018)
2460:(1917–2006)
2453:(1915–1999)
2444:(1914–2013)
2435:(1913–1941)
2233:(1913–1996)
2224:(1903–1972)
2215:(1902–1993)
2201:(1885–1954)
2194:(1873–1925)
2057:(1868–1940)
2032:(1853–1924)
1822:(1827–1881)
1600:(1793–1855)
1593:(1775–1865)
1479:Mary Leakey
1416:Dian Fossey
1367:chimpanzees
1355:Dian Fossey
1324:Mary Leakey
1212:Fort Ternan
1048:Mount Kenya
1044:martial law
644:Pleistocene
578:Elmenteitan
494:World War I
421:in Rwanda.
397:, Anglican
333:, Chapter 4
286:Dian Fossey
263:Mary Leakey
227:Archaeology
144:Mary Leakey
117:Frida Avern
88:Nationality
5043:Categories
4914:H. sapiens
4839:G. gorilla
4819:(Gorillas)
4723:Haplorhini
4721:Suborder:
4684:Hominidae
4603:Monkey Day
4593:Great apes
4494:Personhood
4327:G. gorilla
4294:Chimpanzee
4269:H. sapiens
3951:(1): 35–39
3924:22 October
3491:required.)
3222:8 December
3193:24 January
3170:References
3056:Volume 1.
3013:Online at
2710:required.)
2475:Meave Epps
1384:Last years
1375:orangutans
974:to Gombe.
857:Hyrax Hill
734:Winam Gulf
723:Mary Nicol
610:Kariandusi
446:H. R. Hall
415:Ken Barham
354:among the
319:cat and a
308:See also:
304:Background
53:1903-08-07
4803:Homininae
4769:P. abelii
4733:Hominidae
4697:Kingdom:
4484:Legal and
4346:P. abelii
4336:Orangutan
3955:6 January
3545:, London.
3000:Culture.
2654:(b. 1970)
2650:Emmanuel,
2644:(b. 1972)
2615:(b. 1952)
2508:(b. 1949)
2478:(b. 1942)
1405:apartheid
1390:arthritis
1379:Primates.
1306:artifacts
958:Proconsul
929:army ants
859:and then
648:Acheulean
629:Hans Reck
606:Acheulean
557:in 1925.
546:Tendaguru
544:fossils,
521:viva voce
477:Hampshire
438:gift book
426:governess
401:and then
382:into the
103:in Africa
4973:Primates
4946:Category
4903:(Humans)
4873:Bonobo (
4851:Hominini
4742:Ponginae
4717:Primates
4711:Mammalia
4705:Chordata
4703:Phylum:
4699:Animalia
4641:Category
4562:Bushmeat
3655:Leakeys.
3388:Archived
3368:14 March
3269:Archived
3126:See also
2817:Archived
2774:Archived
2770:cwgc.org
2735:Archived
2238:3 others
2206:5 others
1827:9 others
1487:Tanzania
1371:gorillas
1343:primates
1317:geofacts
1291:scrapers
1179:Piltdown
1095:at FLK,
1074:—
998:—
939:In 1944
778:region.
608:site of
542:dinosaur
473:Boscombe
419:Cyangugu
372:braziers
327:—
166:Children
5021:History
5009:Biology
4997:Animals
4985:Mammals
4959:Portals
4912:Human (
4813:Gorilla
4715:Order:
4709:Class:
4557:Bigfoot
4540:Primate
4533:Related
4307:Gorilla
4202:at the
4123:, 1995.
3874:Science
3689:Memoirs
3677:Memoirs
3665:Memoirs
3652:Memoirs
3648:Memoirs
3635:Memoirs
3591:4079483
3569:Bibcode
3322:of the
3287:Memoirs
3276:beard".
3253:Memoirs
3239:Science
2998:Olduwan
2823:8 April
2780:8 April
2741:6 April
1483:Laetoli
1462:Angels.
1190:Oldowan
1086:Oldowan
1011:Mau Mau
852:Nairobi
848:Kiambaa
804:Memoirs
768:Laetoli
690:Scandal
680:Kanjera
655:Luminal
516:Swahili
364:Nairobi
157:
149:
137:
125:
121:
108:Spouses
4378:family
4374:Gibbon
4284:Bonobo
4248:Extant
4136:
3980:
3786:17 May
3776:"OH 9"
3749:
3589:
3561:Nature
3485:
3437:
2851:Nature
2704:
2676:Notes:
1435:Limuru
1357:, and
1234:cognac
884:Sagana
880:pedlar
772:Kisese
764:Maasai
750:Nature
700:Girton
696:Foxton
433:Kikuyu
360:Kabete
356:Kikuyu
321:baboon
317:serval
288:, and
223:Fields
211:(1969)
206:(1968)
201:(1962)
195:Awards
61:Kabete
4752:Pongo
4623:Yowie
4613:Yeren
4265:Human
3806:Notes
3587:S2CID
3111:1977
3098:1974
3086:1970
3074:1969
3061:1969
3048:1965
3035:1954
3018:1953
3005:1952
2988:1951
2971:With
2963:1951
2950:1937
2933:1936
2920:1936
2907:1935
2894:1934
2881:1931
2871:Notes
2866:Title
2844:Books
1443:ILYUA
1151:Kamba
850:near
808:Nasty
776:Cheke
727:Colin
676:Kanam
444:, by
388:canon
151:(
147:
127:(
123:
4897:Homo
4618:Yeti
4259:Homo
4240:Apes
4134:ISBN
4029:2022
3978:ISBN
3957:2024
3926:2021
3788:2016
3747:ISBN
3481:2020
3435:ISBN
3370:2017
3224:2013
3195:2022
3028:Ylla
2825:2022
2782:2022
2743:2022
1373:and
1265:Homo
1263:and
1232:and
1142:and
1093:OH 5
915:and
678:and
253:and
133:div.
72:Died
43:Born
4861:Pan
4278:Pan
4003:PBS
3577:doi
3565:135
3470:doi
3345:doi
2696:doi
1407:in
952:in
742:Luo
358:at
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4192:.
4169:,
4146:,
4053:,
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4000:.
3949:15
3947:.
3943:.
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982:.
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475:,
440:,
284:,
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153:m.
129:m.
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