Leakey, Richard

Richard Leaky - Homo · Habiris Richard Leaky was born in Nairobi, Kenya on December 19, 1944. His parents are anthropologists Lewis and Mary Leaky. For the first time, Richard became a tour guide for Kenya, but when he discovered the human jaw which was extinct he changed his mind. Then he completed a two-year secondary education program within six months. From 1967 to 1977, he and his colleagues digged about 400 fossils, accounting for 230 people. The most important finding was the almost complete skull found in 1977. And Richard considers it to be a new species called homohabiris.

However, Richard Leakey does not seem to think so. In 1961, Richard Liqui's brother Jonathan Liqui discovered a fragmented skull from Homo · Habilis, which occurred 75 million years ago. In 1972, Reekie collected another Homohoviris skull. This time it is bigger than other Southern Apes, about 9 million years old. Leeky later discovered that fossil jaws and footprints dates back to Lucy and the first family. Unlike Johansson, who believes that these findings are alpha species in the southern he thinks they are more homotypic. Leakey believes that the first family is not A. sinensis, but they are completely different species. The difference between men and women is so big that he reached this conclusion. Men with large fossils and footprints are homozygous. Small fossils are South Africa

Since 1931, the Leakey family had studied fossils in East Africa, where Dr. Lewis Leakey led exploration to the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania. Richard, the son between Louis and Mary Lekey, finally took over family heritage. While working for his father who began exploring the Turkana Basin in Kenya in the late 1960s, Richard married Mieve Epps. Richard and her daughter Louis also became paleontologists, focusing on the fossils of Lake Turkana. Today, Meave and Louise Leakey are geographical explorers throughout the country. Together they have found some of the most important ancient human fossils in history.