A dig for humanity's origins

Animated Life: Mary Leakey

Louis B. Leakey reminded us years ago,"Theories on prehistory ... | Filo

Louis Leakey was born on this day in 1903. He was a charismatic scientist and science popularizer who devoted his life to uncovering our shared human past. Louis Leakey was largely responsible for convincing other scientists that Africa was the key location in which to search for evidence of human origins. His early, unwavering position that Africa was the cradle of humanity has held up against modern scientific scrutiny and is now universally accepted. You can hear Louis Leakey's story in his o

4 incredible fossils found by paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey

First known hand fossils of extinct human relative reveal ‘surprising’ features