They and their children (especially Richard and his wife Meave) became known as the first family of paleontology. Louis Leakey was born in 1903 in Kenya, where his English parents were missionaries.

“I was really lucky,” she says, “because Louis Leakey believed that women would ... you need to be very observant of relationships in the … family group or the tribe, because you want ...

Richard Leakey's life was a life of ironies and contrasts; a form two drop-out who became a CEO of a public institution and world-famous paleoanthropologist; a man who lost his vital organs but ...