Richard Leakey

Richard Leakey

male, 64 years old
From Nairobi, politician, Archaeologist, Richard Erskine Frere Leakey, Hubbard Medal recipient, paleoanthropologist
Richard Erskine Frere Leakey (born 19 December 1944 in Nairobi, Kenya), is a Kenyan paleontologist, archaeologist and conservationist. He is the...
Donald Johanson

Donald Johanson

male, 66 years old
Arizona State University faculty, Anthropology writer, Anthropology educator, University of Chicago alumni, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign alumni, Hominidae…paleoanthropologist
Donald Carl Johanson (born June 28, 1943 in Brisbane) is an American paleoanthropologist. Along with Maurice Taieb, Yves Coppens and Tim White, he...
Tim White

Tim White

male, 59 years old
University of Michigan, University of California, Riverside, University of California, Riverside alumni, Australopithecus garhi, Ardipithecus ramidus, Koobi Fora, Kenya…paleoanthropologist
Tim White (born August 24, 1950 in Los Angeles, California) is an American anthropologist. White majored in biology and anthropology at the...
Mary Leakey

Mary Leakey

female, deceased (1996) (United Kingdom)
Zinjanthropus, richard, Hubbard Medal recipient, Olduvai Gorge, Laetoli footprints, laetoli…paleoanthropologist
Mary Leakey (February 6 1913 - December 9 1996) was a British archaeologist, who, along with others, discovered the first skull of a fossil ape on...
Louis Leakey

Louis Leakey

male, deceased (1972)
death by myocardial infarction, From Nairobi, kenyan, Archaeologist, archaeology, linnaeus…paleoanthropologist
Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey (August 7, 1903 - October 1, 1972) was an Kenyan archaeologist and naturalist whose work was important in establishing...
Meave Leakey

Meave Leakey

female, 67 years old
Archaeologist, Anthropologist, British, Paleontologist, From London, paleoanthropologist
Meave (Epps) Leakey (born 1942 in London, England) is together with her husband Richard Leakey one of the most renowned British paleontologists....
Chris Stringer

Chris Stringer

male, 62 years old
Alumni of the University of Bristol, Bristol University, Anthropologist, hominin, paleoanthropologist, human
Chris Stringer (born 1947) is a British anthropologist and one of the leading proponents of the recent single-origin hypothesis or "Out of Africa"...
Erik Trinkaus

Erik Trinkaus

male, 60 years old
Archaeologist, human diversity, human origin, paleoanthropology, paleoanthropologist, mass media
Erik Trinkaus, PhD, (December 24, 1948) is a prominent paleoanthropologist and expert on Neanderthal biology and human evolution. Trinkaus...
Zeresenay Alemseged

Zeresenay Alemseged

male, 40 years old
max planck institute, ethiopian, Axum, paleoanthropologist, Selam
Zeresenay Alemseged (born 4 June, 1969 in Axum, Ethiopia) is an Ethopian paleoanthropologist who discovered the 3.3 million year old girl Selam...
Raymond Dart

Raymond Dart

male, deceased (1988)
Expatriate in South Africa, physical anthropologist, expatriate, anatomist, extinction, australopithecus…paleoanthropologist
Raymond Dart (February 4 1893 - November 22 1988) was an Australian anatomist and anthropologist best known for his discovery in 1924 of a fossil...