Hans Reck
German geologist and palaeontologist (1886-1937)
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Hans Gottfried Reck was a German volcanologist and paleontologist. In 1913, he was the first to discover an ancient skeleton of a human in the Olduvai Gorge, in what is now Tanzania. The fossil elephant Palaeoloxodon recki discovered at the same site is named after him. He collaborated with Louis Leakey in a return expedition to the site in 1931.
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