leakey

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Определение leakey в Английский Язык Турецкий язык словарь

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leakey family

Leakey ailesi

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Определение leakey в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь

a family of British scientists working in the area of paleontology (=the study of ancient animals and plants that have been preserved in rock). The family includes Mary Leakey (1913-96 ), her husband Louis Leakey (1903-72), and their son Richard Leakey (1944- ), all of whom discovered many fossils and human bones in Tanzania, which have provided important information about how humans first developed

{i} family name; Mary Leakey (1913-1996), British anthropologist and archaeologist; Louis Leakey (1903-1972), British anthropologist and archaeologist; Richard Leakey (born 1944), Kenyan paleoanthropologist

English paleontologist whose account of fossil discoveries in Tanzania changed theories of human evolution (1903-1972) English paleontologist (the wife of Louis Leakey) who discovered the Zinjanthropus skull that was 1,750,000 years old (1913-1996) English paleontologist (son of Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey) who continued the work of his parents; he was appointed director of a wildlife preserve in Kenya but resigned under political pressure (born in 1944)

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Leakey family

Family of archaeologists and paleoanthropologists known for their discoveries of hominid and other fossil remains in eastern Africa. Louis S.B. Leakey (b. 1903 d. 1972), born of British missionary parents, grew up in Kenya, was educated at Cambridge University, and eventually (1931) began field research at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania. He was joined there by his wife, Mary D. Leakey (b. 1913 d. 1996), who in 1959 uncovered remains of a form of Australopithecus. The couple later uncovered the first known remains of Homo habilis, as well as those of Kenyapithecus, another ape-human link (lived 14 million years ago). L.S.B. Leakey commissioned Jane Goodall, Biruté Galdikas, and Dian Fossey to undertake pioneering studies of chimpanzees, orangutans, and gorillas, respectively. Mary Leakey continued to make important discoveries, including the Laetoli footprints, after her husband's death. Their son, Richard Leakey (b. 1944), is known for his work at the Koobi Fora site on the shores of Lake Turkana in Kenya, where he uncovered evidence of H. habilis in Africa as early as 2.5 million years ago. His wife, Meave Leakey (b. 1942), is also a noted paleoanthropologist, having discovered two new hominid species

Louis Leakey

{i} (1903-1972) British archaeologist and paleontologist, husband of Mary Leakey, father of Richard Leakey

Mary Leakey

{i} (1913-1996) British paleontologist and wife of Louis Leakey, mother of Richard Leakey

Richard Leakey

{i} (born 1944) Kenyan paleoanthropologist, son of Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey, most known for his discovery of an almost complete skeleton of a 9-year-old hominid who died 1.5 million years ago

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Lea·key

Турецкое произношение

liki

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/ˈlēkē/ /ˈliːkiː/