Meave Leakey

British paleoanthropologist · Kenya · On the map · Academics · Born 1942 · age 84

Meave G. Leakey is a British palaeoanthropologist. She works at Stony Brook University and is co-ordinator of Plio-Pleistocene research at the Turkana Basin Institute. She studies early hominid evolution and has done extensive field research in the Turkana Basin.

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