Today marks 100 years since the birth of Louis Leakey, the patriarch of the first family of human fossils. NPR's Christopher Joyce reports for National Geographic Radio Expeditions.

Louis Leakey died in 1972 of a heart attack. Mary, Richard, and Meave continued to work on discovering human origins and untangling the primate family tree. In the 1970s, ...

Louis Leakey was not the first person to ever find an ancient hominid fossil. But more than anyone else, he promoted and popularized the study of human evolution. His work spurred others to go to ...

More than anyone, Louis Leakey established Paleoanthropology as a highprofile endeavor. By the time he died 30 years ago this month, his name had become synonymous with the search for human origins.

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Paleoanthropologist Louise Leakey, the granddaughter of Mary and Louis Leakey, who first determined that early humans evolved in Africa, presented a history of her family’s research in north ...

Louis Leakey and his first wife Frida, née Avern, lived in Foxton in the early 1930s - their home was built in 1705 and is of historic interest ...

When it came to choosing three people whom he’d send to live with the great apes, legendary paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey picked three women — very consciously, according to Jane Goodall ...

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The Leakeys, and especially Mary Leakey, Louis’s wife, soon recognized Mr. Kamoya’s aptitude, not just at finding fossils but identifying them; they began to offer him lessons in paleontology ...