He was also instrumental in persuading jane goodall, dian fossey, and biruté m.f His career spanned several decades, and he made important contributions to our understanding of human origins. One of his lasting legacies is his mentorship of three prominent female primatologists, sometimes called the “trimates” or “leakey’s angels.”
Leakey | TX Almanac
These fossils were the first in a long and continually emerging series of spectacular paleoanthropological and archaeological discoveries in east africa, spanning six decades and three generations of the leakey family.
Louis seymour bazet leakey was a paleoanthropologist and archaeologist renowned for his fieldwork in east africa
