The Leakey family is synonymous with the search for the origins of humankind. The late Louis Leakey, born 100 years ago today, started a dynasty of fossil hunters who still explore the sediments of ...

When Louis Leakey and Mary Nicol first met, he asked her to help with illustrations for his upcoming (1934) book Adam's Ancestors: An Up-to-Date Outline of What is Known about the Origin of Man.

“Ancestral Passions: The Leakey Family and the Quest for Humankind’s Beginnings,” by Virginia Morell. Illustrated. New York: Simon & Schuster. 638 pages. $30 No other family has approached the ...

Today is the 105th birthday of legendary paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey, the matriarch of not only two generations of renowned archaeologists, but of an entire field of study. She accomplished all of ...

The Leakey family tradition–locating spectacular and controversial fossils in Africa such as Homo habilis (“Handy Man,”or “man, the toolmaker”) that shed light on the origins of humanity–was started ...

Born in Kenya in 1903 to Anglican missionaries, Louis Leakey (in his mother's arms outside the family's mud and thatch house) was initiated as a youth into the Kikuyu tribe. "I still often think in ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Leakey Family: From left Richard Leakey, Mary Leakey, Philip Leakey, Louis Leakey, and ...