Leakey Essays

  • Richard Leakey

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    Introduction to Anthropology Linda Samland Homo habilis, Richard Erskine Leakey, was born December 19, 1944 in Nairobi, Kenya. His parents were the esteemed anthropologists Louis and Mary Leakey. Leakey decided at an early age that he wanted nothing to do with paleoanthropology and dropped out of high school. Over the next few years Leakey trapped wild animals, supplied skeletons to institutions, started a safari business and taught himself to fly. In 1964, he led an expedition to a fossil site

  • Mary Leakey

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    rather than a theory. The name Leakey is synonymous in most people's minds with the successive dramatic discoveries of fossilized hominid bones and stone artifacts that have, over the years, pushed the origins of true man further and further back in prehistory. Less flamboyant than her husband, Louis S. B. Leakey, or her son Richard Leakey, Mary Leakey was the "unsung hero,” of the clan for years, even though she was, in fact, responsible for many of the spectacular Leakey finds, including the nearly

  • The Magnificent Mary Leakey

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    The Magnificent Mary Leakey Mary Leakey died on December 9, 1996. She loved to smoke Dutch cigars, as if everyday were some kind of celebration; strong tobacco was one of her vices. Hers was a life of constant commencement. She never attended colleges, though she did receive numerous honorary degrees in Britain and America: "I have worked for them by digging in the sun," she said. She first gained recognition in 1948 for discovering a 16 million year old fossilized cranium of a hominid thought

  • The Important Discovery of Kenyanthropus Platyops - The Flat Faced Man of Kenya

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    any noticeable and unique characteristics held by modern man. The find was discovered by Meave Leakey of the National Museums of Kenya and her colleagues, Fred Spoor, Frank H. Brown, Patrik N. Gathogo, Christopher Kiarie, Louise N. Leakey and Ian McDougall. The find originated from an area in Northern Kenya which has been a hot bed for early hominid fossils, and has earned the nickname the “Leakey Stable”. The specific area in Northern Kenya is located in the Lomekwi and Topernawi river drainages

  • Development of Tools Throughout Time

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    early hominids invented stone tools with which they could slay larger animals. This began a switch from scavenging to hunting as the main means by which meat was acquired. The earliest known tools yet discovered were found by Louis and Mary Leakey at Olduvai Gorge dating back to about two million years ago. They originally thought that these tools were made by the Australopithecus, but later determined that they were made by the Homo Habilis . The first tools found were classified as lower

  • Dian Fossey

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    gorillas. Another person involved in her start with gorillas was a man by the name of Louis Leaky, the most eminent prehistorian of his genration. He was the man that gave Dian her start in Africa, after she convinced him of her determination. Louis Leakey believed that women were best suited emotionally and constitutionally for studying the great apes. It seems Dian was fit for the job, but not for some aspects of it. I think Dian became a little too attached to her gorillas. They became her family

  • Comparing How Various Anthropologists Discovered Anthropology as a Career

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    Comparing How Various Anthropologists Discovered Anthropology as a Career Anthropologists have reasons for entering a field of work just like any other person has reasons for Choosing science over music or medicine over business. The reason a person may enter a particular career can be from stumbling upon a field that they knew little. Once discovering it they have ambitions of being the best they can be. It could also stem from a desire as a child to know more about a specific subject. Reasons

  • Richard Leankey Research Paper

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    Richard Erskine Frere Leakey was born December 19, 1944 in Nairobi, Kenya. He was politician he is the second of the three sons of the archaeologist his other brothers are Louis Leakey, and Mary leakey he is the younger half brother of colin leakey.When leakey was 11 he fell from his horse and fractured his skull and lay near death. It was this incident that saved his parents marriage. The leakey boys had a lot of nannies like their father before him leakey was 11 when he entered the Duke of York

  • Dian Fossey's Gorillas in the Mist

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    Dian Fossey's Gorillas in the Mist Gorillas in the Mist is one of the most emotional and inspiring books I have ever read. This autobiography is by, in my eyes, the most admired researcher ever to walk the face of this earth. There is no woman more dedicated to anything than Dian Fossey. This woman stood her ground through thick and thin to protect the lives of one of the most threatened species today. Dian Fossey was a normal young lady that had the dream of taking part in the research

  • Jane Goodall Ambition

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    At age 23, Jane sails to Africa. During her trip, she meets the famous Dr. Louis Leakey, who was an anthropologist. Meeting him opened up a huge window for Jane. Louis ends up hiring her to be his secretary at the Coryndon Museum (Biography Online N.D.). In 1957, Dr. Leakey realizes that Jane is a perfect candidate to study chimpanzees in the Gombe Stream in Tanzania. This is great news for Jane, because this was one of her long

  • The Evolution of Modern Humans

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    “ramidu... ... middle of paper ... ...ng in the Taung child. South African Journal of Science 101, 567-569. Alexeev, V.P., 1986. The Origin of the Human Race. Moscow, Progress Publishers. Spoor, F., Leakey, M.G., Gathogo, P.N., Brown, F.H., Antón, S.C., McDougall, I., Kiarie, C. Manthi, F.K, Leakey, L.N., 2007. Implications of new early Homo fossils from Ileret, east of Lake Turkana, Kenya. Nature 448, 688–691. Antón, S.C., 2003. Natural history of Homo erectus. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology

  • Argumentative Essay On Deaf Education

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    learning capabilities of hearing and deaf students. Apparently, academic learning is more appropriate for hearing students who invest more time in academic work, while vocational learning is necessary for deaf students who rely mostly on manual labor (Leakey, p. 74). Thus, the focus of many education institutions for deaf pupils is on manual labor and skills training rather than academic achievement. In other words, vocational learning had self-fulfilling results, while academic accomplishments, such

  • Essay On Proconsul And Zinjathropus

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    the avid reader of paleo-anthropological discoveries, is well known and has been well documented in several popular accounts by many prominent anthropologists, outside those written by the Leakey family, such as the famed anatomist and anthropologist Raymond Dart. All of these accounts point to the Mary Leakey being the founder of both fossils. Proconsul, as Mary tells it, was found by accident in a 1948 dig on Rusinga Island in Lake Victoria, Kenya that Louis and Mary were excavating after obtaining

  • The Incredible Work of Jane Goodall

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    wild animals, Tarzan and Dr. Dolittle (Early Days 1). An author writes that when an invitation came in 1960 to visit a friend in Kenya, Africa, she immediately quit her job in London (Facklam 41). There she met Louis Leakey, a famous archaeologist, who gave her a secretarial job. Leakey could see Jane’s fascination in the African animals, and asked her to join him and his wife in a dig for bones at the Olduvai Gorge (Facklam... ... middle of paper ... ... in National Geographic, “…I left the Gombe

  • Jane Goodall: The Primatologist of Our Time

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    April 3, 1934 a leader was born. A leader by the name of Jane Goodall, an extremely well rounded, primatologist of our time. Although this may seemed distant to many, it was actually her calling. At the age of one, Goodall received a stuffed chimpanzee that her father Herbert Goodall gave to her. She named the chimpanzee Jubilee, which she still keeps with her in her home in England. That was the beginning of her curious mind. She opened many eyes on the situation with chimpanzees being harmed in

  • Jane Goodall Contribution To Anthropology

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    Jane Goodall has achieved and contributed greatly to the field of anthropology and primatology; she is considered to be one of the world’s most inspiring and dedicated naturalists. Additionally, Goodall has extensively and significantly contributed to society and the animal kingdom. Her work pioneered numerous primate research studies, and has influenced people to look at chimpanzees in a new light, so to speak. As a child, Goodall dreamt of travelling to Africa to observe and learn more about the

  • Jane Goodall Research Paper

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    time seeing Africa, and meeting new people, but the most remarkable event of her visit was when she met anthropologist and paleontologist Dr. Louis Leakey. Notably, Jane managed to impress Leakey with her knowledge of Africa and its wildlife so much that Leakey hired Jane as his assistant. Jane travelled with Leakey and his wife, archaeologist Mary Leakey, to Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania on a fossil-hunting expedition. For quite some time Louis had been looking for someone to go to Tanzania to study the

  • A Brief Look at Jane van Lewick-Goodall

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    readily accepted. Within a few mo nths of her arrival, she met with famed anthropologist and paleontologist Dr. Louis Leakey. Dr. Leakey had been in the process of searching for someone to spearhead a study on the b ehaviour of wild chimpanzees. Jane Goodall’s patience and persistent desire to understand animals made her an ideal candidate for the groundbreaking study. Dr. Leakey believed that a mind uncluttered by academia would yield a fresh perspective. Critics were sceptical and predicted t hat

  • Why Is Jane Goodall Important In Psychology

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    Jane Goodall was not like other primatologists because she decided to name her subjects instead of numbering them. Scientists criticized this action because they used numbering so that there couldn’t be an emotional attachment to the subjects.Goodall is most famously known for her discovery of chimpanzees creating tools for the purpose of feeding, drinking, cleaning, and sometimes even used as weapons. In 1960, Goodall first observed a chimpanzee, named David Greybeard, using a tool for eating purposes

  • The Impact Of Jane Goodall On Chimpanzees

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    came from the mouth of Jane Goodall, an 83 year primatologist most commonly known for her extensive research on chimpanzees in Africa. Her ground breaking observations (one in particular) made the scientific world step back and, in the words of Louis Leakey, a famous anthropologist and Jane’s superviser at the time, “Now we must redefine ‘tool,’ redefine ‘man.’ Or accept chimpanzees as humans.” Jane’s love started from a young age when she received a stuffed monkey as a gift. She grew up idolizing Doctor