Mary Leakey, English-Kenyan archaeologist and anthropologist (died 1996)

Mary Leakey

British paleoanthropologist (1913–1996)

Mary Douglas Leakey, FBA was a British paleoanthropologist who discovered the first fossilised Proconsul skull, an extinct ape which is now believed to be ancestral to humans. She also discovered the robust Zinjanthropus skull at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, eastern Africa. For…