Louis Leakey, Kenyan-English palaeontologist and archaeologist (died 1972)

Louis Leakey

British archaeologist and naturalist (1903–1972)

Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey was a Kenyan-British palaeoanthropologist and archaeologist whose work was important in demonstrating that humans evolved in Africa, particularly through discoveries made at Olduvai Gorge with his wife, fellow palaeoanthropologist Mary Leakey. Having…