Louise Leakey
Louise Leakey
Princess Louise de Merodeis a Kenyan paleontologist and anthropologist. She conducts research and field work on human fossils in Eastern Africa...
NationalityKenyan
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth21 March 1971
CountryKenya
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With the discovery of Zinjanthropus at Olduvai Gorge in 1959, my grandmother Mary Leakey pioneered the research in East Africa with my grandfather Louis. Many more spectacular fossil finds have since been made, both in Africa and elsewhere, by many researchers driven to understand our past.