One of man’s earliest ancestors, says Anthropologist Louis Leakey, was a puny creature named Kenyapithecus africanus that inhabited the earth 20 million years ago. Bones that Leakey found in his ...

Our ancient ancestors were using bone tools at least 1.5 million years ago, roughly a million years earlier than was previously thought, a study published last week in the journal Nature reported. The ...

That was in 1903, the year world famous anthropologist, Louis Leakey, was born in Kabete. Abraham Block, left Lithuania via England to South Africa, before setting his sure feet in Kenya on info ...

A cache of 1.5 million-year-old bone tools uncovered in Tanzania suggest ancient human ancestors were capable of critical ...

Born Dec. 19, 1944, Leakey was destined for palaeoanthropology -- the study of the human fossil record -- as the middle son of Louis and Mary Leakey, one of the most famous couples in history as ...

“The iconic work of the famous archaeologists Drs. Louis and Mary Leakey, which discovered early human fossils … and the world’s first human stone tools ignited my fascination and fueled the ...

Have you come across the phrase the “Cradle of Mankind.” It was here that paleoanthropologists Louis and Mary Leakey discovered some of the earliest human fossils, providing valuable insights ...

Despite all the deep-sea expeditions and samples taken from the seabed over the past 100 years, humans still know very little ...