Louis Leakey

Louis Leakey
Louis Leakey
Sexo	mascule
Nascentia	1903-08-07 (Nairobi)
Decesso	1972-10-01 (London)
Causa de decesso	infarcto del myocardio
Ethnicitate	gente anglese[*]
Citatania	Kenya
Educate in	St John's College[], Weymouth College[]
Occupation	anthropologo[], archeologo[], prehistorian[], autobiographo[], paleoanthropologist[], paleontologist[], curator[*]
Conjuge	Mary Leakey[], Henrietta Leakey[]
Infantes	Richard Leakey[], Philip Leakey[], Jonathan Leakey[], Priscilla Muthoni Avern Leakey[], Colin L. A. Leakey[*]
Parentes	matre Mary Bazett[] patre Harry Leakey[]
Premios	Vega Medal[], Founder’s Medal[], Prestwich Medal[], Hubbard Medal[], Silliman Memorial Lectures[*]
Lingua	anglese
Identificatores
ISNI	0000000120170427
VIAF	4972301
Commons	Louis Leakey

Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey (Nairobi, Africa Oriental Britannic le 7 de augusto 1903 – London, Anglaterra le 1 de octobre 1972) esseva un paleoanthropologo, primatologo e archeologo britannic nascite in Kenya.

Ille travaliava principalmente in Africa. Ille faceva un labor importante in le establimento del evolution human developpate in ille continente.

Insimul con su sponsa Mary Leakey illes excavava le terras de Olduvai. Inter lor principal discopertas il ha le cranio Zinjanthropus in 1959, in 1964 trovava le restos del Homo habilis e in 1967 le Kenyapithecus africanus.

Item laborava in le excavationes que demonstrava le existentia de humanos in California 50.000 annos ante.