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Leakey
1. Louis Seymour Bazett . 1903--72, British anthropologist and archaeologist, settled in Kenya. He discovered fossil remains of manlike apes in E Africa
2. his son Richard. born 1944, Kenyan anthropologist, who discovered the remains of primitive man over 2 million years old in E Africa


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Despite Goodall's lack of science education, Louis Leakey hired her to help him study the social life and behavior of chimpanzees.
Meg Greene's JANE GOODALL (0313331391) tells of a woman always fascinated with animals, who researched chimps under anthropologist Louis Leakey and became a major researcher in the wild.
``I met Louis Leakey, who'd spent his entire life searching for the fossils of Stone Age ancestors, nor did he see a conflict between science and religion.
 
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