Mary Leakey's 100th Birthday: A Look at Her Human Achievements

Mary Leakey's 100th Birthday: A Look at Her Human Achievements

Mary Leakey is being honored with a Google doodle in parts of the world where it is already February 6th (like Australia). Leakey was a British archaeologist and anthropologist, who discovered the first fossilized Proconsul


Today marks the 100th birthday of anthropologist Mary Leakey, whose extensive research in Africa's Rift Valley taught us that our ancestors had capabilities far beyond the image of the primitive, brutish Neanderthal (although the existence of Arnold


Mary Leakey was born in London, England on February 6, 1913. Her father earned his living as a painter and moved from one place to the other while trying to make a living. It was during these travels that Leakey developed an interest in Egyptology


Google's Mary Leakey Logo. Mary Leakey was born today, a hundred years ago, in London, England and died at the age of 83 in Kenya, Africa on December 9, 1996. Mary is most well known for her discovery of the first fossilized Proconsul skull, an extinct


Yesterday, as the day had already changed in some parts of the world, Google began showing a doodle honoring the 100th birthday of archaeologist Mary Leakey. Now that it is February 6th in the rest of the world, other countries can now see the doodle.



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