Mary Leakey
Mary Leakey
Mary Leakeywas a British paleoanthropologist who discovered the first fossilised Proconsul skull, an extinct ape now believed to be ancestral to humans. She also discovered the robust Zinjanthropus skull at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, eastern Africa. For much of her career she worked with her husband, Louis Leakey, at Olduvai Gorge, where they uncovered fossils of ancient hominines and the earliest hominins, as well as the stone tools produced by the latter group. Mary Leakey developed a system for classifying...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth6 February 1913
The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.