Dr.
Richard
Erskine Frere
Leakey
Born in Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya
Ancestors 
Brother of
Colin Louis Avern Leakey [half]
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at age 77
in Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya
Profile last modified
| Created 4 Jan 2022
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Biography
Richard Leakey is Notable.
Richard Leakey was born in Kenya
Kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist and politician
Paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey was born in 1944 to Louis Leakey and Mary Nicol. His groundbreaking research helped prove that humans evolved on the African continent. He passed away in 2022.
Sources
See also:
- Wikipedia: Richard Leakey
- Wikidata: Item Q318960, en:Wikipedia
- "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKWG-JB5C : accessed 4 January 2022), Richard Leakey in entry for Dr Mrs Mary Douglas Nicol Leakey, Hackensack, New Jersey, United States, 10 Dec 1996; from "Recent Newspaper Obituaries (1977 - Today)," database, GenealogyBank.com (http://www.genealogybank.com : 2014); citing Record, The, born-digital text.
- Article Phys.org
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