Louise Leakey

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Louise N. Leakey (* 1972 ) is the third generation of the family to be the youngest member of a dynasty of leading Kenyan-British paleoanthropologists . She is the daughter of Meave and Richard Leakey and was taken to dig at Lake Turkana when she was just a few weeks old . Louise Leakey has been Associate Professor of Physical Anthropology at Stony Brook University in New York since 2002 . She was the co-author of the first description of the genus Kenyanthropus .

Her grandparents were Louis and Mary Leakey . Her uncle, Jonathan Leakey , was the discoverer of the type specimen of Homo habilis .

Louise Leakey completed her International Baccalaureate at the United World College of the Atlantic , studied biology and geology at the University of Bristol between 1992 and 1995 and wrote her doctoral thesis at the University of London between 1998 and 2001 (“Body weight estimation of Bovidae and Plio- Pleistocene faunal change, Turkana Basin, Kenya ”). Today she is co-director of the Koobi Fora Research Project on Lake Turkana and in this role she organizes the annual excavations by plane. She is also a National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence.

Louise is married to Prince Emmanuel de Merode and has the title Princess of Merode. She has two daughters.

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  1. ↑ Meave G. Leakey, Fred Spoor, Frank H. Brown, Patrick N. Gathogo, Christopher Kiarie, Louise N. Leakey and Ian McDougall : New hominin genus from eastern Africa shows diverse middle Pliocene lineages. In: Nature . Volume 410, 2001, pp. 433-440, doi: 10.1038 / 35068500
  2. ↑ roycecarlton.com : Curriculum Vitae Louise Leakey
  3. ↑ Bowman Kruhm, Mary (2005). The Leakeys: A Biography . ISBN 0-313-32985-0
personal data
SURNAME Leakey, Louise
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leakey, Louise N.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kenyan-British paleoanthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1972