Meave leakey biography of william

          Meave Leakey seems to have the philosophy that if we can understand our past, we should be in a better position to understand our future....

          Meave had been trained as a marine biologist and it was her dream to get a position on a research ship, but she kept being turned down and told.

          Meave Leakey

          Dr. Meave Leakey was born Meave Epps in 1942 in London. As a child, she attended convent and boarding schools. She later attended the University of North Wales, where she earned a joint honours in Zoology and Marine Zoology.

          Her ambition at that time had been to become a Marine Zoologist.

          Meave Leakey, now matriarch of the Leakey dynasty, made one of her greatest discoveries in the flat-faced skull of Kenyanthropus, a million-year-old.

          In 1965, however, she changed her focus and began to pursue a Ph.D. in Zoology. That same year, she had her first contact with the Leakey family; she took a staff position at the Tigoni Primate Research Centre, which was administered by Dr.

          Louis Leakey. She completed her Ph.D. in 1968.

          In 1969 she returned to Kenya and was invited by Richard Leakey to join his field expedition investigating the newly discovered palaeontological site at Koobi Fora on the eastern shore of Lake Turkana.

          Son Richard followed in his parents' foot steps, along with his wife Meave, and made spectacular finds as well.

        1. Son Richard followed in his parents' foot steps, along with his wife Meave, and made spectacular finds as well.
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        3. Meave Leakey seems to have the philosophy that if we can understand our past, we should be in a better position to understand our future.
        4. Meave Leakey, now matriarch of the Leakey dynasty, made one of her greatest discoveries in the flat-faced skull of Kenyanthropus, a million-year-old.
        5. Trained as a marine zoologist, Meave was hired by archaeologist Louis Leakey to work at Tigoni Primate Research Centre in Kenya.

          6. This was the beginning of a long-term involvement with the highly successful Turkana Basin research project. Meave married Richard Leakey in 1970. Their two children are Louise, born in 1972 and Samira,