Leakey - Definition
leakey
n 1: 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) [syn:
Leakey, Richard Leakey, Richard Erskine Leakey]
2: English paleontologist (the wife of Louis Leakey) who
discovered the Zinjanthropus skull that was 1,750,000 years
old (1913-1996) [syn: Leakey, Mary Leakey, Mary Douglas
Leakey]
3: English paleontologist whose account of fossil discoveries in
Tanzania changed theories of human evolution (1903-1972)
[syn: Leakey, Louis Leakey, Louis Seymour Bazett
Leakey]