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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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1]s Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism, through the Department of Antiquities and the National Museum, will mark the discovery 50 years ago by British archeologists Louis and Mary Leakey of a skull now considered to be the earliest fossil of humankind.
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