![]() ![]() While raising a family and dealing with Richard’s health challenges, Meave describes life in camp sifting through mounds of soil in search of small bones, punctuated by important discoveries. Invited to Koobi Fora by fellow paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey, Maeve soon became interested in fossil hunting the two married and worked together until Richard was asked to lead Kenya’s wildlife conservation efforts, leaving Meave to coordinate the paleontological fieldwork in the Turkana Basin. Trained as a marine zoologist, Meave was hired by archaeologist Louis Leakey to work at Tigoni Primate Research Centre in Kenya. Paleoanthropologist Meave Leakey (research professor, Stony Brook Univ.) has penned a memoir, cowritten with her daughter Samira, chronicling her life hunting fossils and piecing together the mystery of hominid evolution. ![]()
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