Louise Leakey

Louise N. Leakey (born 1972 ) is the third generation of the youngest scion of a dynasty of leading Kenyan- British paleoanthropologists. She is the daughter of Meave and Richard Leakey and was taken away at the age of a few weeks to excavations at Lake Turkana. Since 2002, Louise Leakey is associate professor of physical anthropology at Stony Brook University in New York. She was a co - author of the first description of Kenyanthropus platyops.

Your grandparents were Louis and Mary Leakey. Her uncle, Jonathan Leakey, was the discoverer of the type - specimen of Homo habilis.

Louise Leakey made ​​her International Baccalaureate at the United World College of the Atlantic, studied between 1992 and 1995 Biology and Geology at the University of Bristol and wrote between 1998 and 2001 at the University of London her doctoral thesis ( "Body weight estimation of Bovidae and Plio - Pleistocene faunal change, Turkana Basin, Kenya "). Today she is co-director of the Koobi Fora Research Project on Lake Turkana and organized in this function, among others by plane to supply the annual excavations. She is also "National Geographic Explorer -in- Residence ".