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LEAKEY, Louis Seymour Bazett (1903 – 1972)

LEAKEY, Louis Seymour Bazett (1903 – 1972)

1903 – 1972

3 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source Smithsonian Institution from United States · (left to right): Mary Douglas Nicol Leakey (1913-1996) and her husband Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey (1903-1972) · No restrictions

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1959

#7288

A new fossil from Olduvai.

LEAKEY, Louis Seymour Bazett (1903 – 1972)
LEAKEY, Louis Seymour Bazett (1903 – 1972)

In 1959 Mary Leakey discovered the "Zinj" skull (OH 5) at Olduvai Gorge. This became the type specimen for Paranthropus boisei, arguably the most famous early human fossil from Olduvai in Northern Tanzania. The specie…

1961

#214.2

Age of Bed I, Olduvai Gorge, Tanganyika.

LEAKEY, Louis Seymour Bazett (1903 – 1972)
LEAKEY, Louis Seymour Bazett (1903 – 1972) & et al.

Introduction of the potassium-argon dating method to paleoanthropology, showing that lava at the base of the site of Olduvai Gorge was about 1.8 million years old, and proving that fossils, Australopithecus (Zinjanthr…

1964

#7270

A new species of the genus Homo from Olduvai Gorge.

LEAKEY, Louis Seymour Bazett (1903 – 1972)
LEAKEY, Louis Seymour Bazett (1903 – 1972)
TOBIAS, Phillip Valentine (1925 – 2012)
TOBIAS, Phillip Valentine (1925 – 2012) NAPIER, John Russell (1917 – 1987)

First report on Homo habilis.