Leakey Richard

Title: Leakey Richard
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Leakey Richard

Richard Leakey- Homo habilis Richard Leakey was born December 19, 1944 in Nairobi, Kenya. His parents were the esteemed anthropologists Louis and Mary Leakey. Richard first became a tour guide in Kenya, but changed his mind when he found an extinct human jaw. He then schooled himself by completing a two-year secondary education program in six months. From 1967-77 he and his co-workers dug up around 400 fossils, that accounted for 230 individuals. The most important discovery was an almost …showed first 75 words of 493 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 493 total…of the skull vault and face are unlike that of Australopithec- ines. Bibliography Bibliography Lewin, Roger. Human Evolution: An Illustrated Introduction: Second Edition. London: Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1989. Lambert, David. The Cambridge Guide to Prehistoric Man. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Jurmain, Robert/ Nelson, Harry/ Kilgore, Lynn. Essentials of Physical Anthropology: Second Edition. San Francisco: West Publishing Company, 1995. Howell, Clark. LIFE Nature Library Early Man. Canada: Time Inc., 1971. http://citd.scar.utoronto.ca/ANTD15/Shan/gloss.html

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