Other names Meave Epps Alma mater Bangor University | Name Meave Leakey Children Louise Leakey | |
Institutions Stony Brook UniversityTurkana Basin Institute Books Stratigraphy and Paleontology of Pliocene and Pleistocene Localities West of Lake Turkana, Kenya Similar People Richard Leakey, Louis Leakey, Mary Leakey |
Stiftungsprofessur 2012 endowed professorship 2012 meave leakey 05 06 2012
Meave G. Leakey (born Meave Epps on 28 July 1942 in London, England) is a British paleoanthropologist. 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. She has Doctor of Philosophy and Doctor of Science degrees.
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- Stiftungsprofessur 2012 endowed professorship 2012 meave leakey 05 06 2012
- Meave leakey piecing together human ancestors nat geo live
- Flat faced man of Kenya
- Personal life
- Selected publications
- References

Meave leakey piecing together human ancestors nat geo live
Flat-faced man of Kenya

Dr. Leakey's research team at Lake Turkana, Kenya made a discovery in 1999. They found a 3.5-million-year-old skull and partial jaw thought to belong to a new branch of the early human family. She named the find Kenyanthropus platyops, or flat-faced man of Kenya.
Personal life

Meave Leakey is married to Richard Leakey, a palaeontologist. They have two children, Louise (born 1972) and Samira (born 1974). Louise Leakey continues family traditions by conducting palaeontological research.

Leakey initially studied Zoology and Marine zoology at the University of North Wales. Her first contact with the Leakey family was working for the Tigoni Primate Research Centre while taking her PhD at this time, the centre was being administered by Louis Leakey.

She received her PhD in Zoology in 1968. In 2004, she was awarded an honorary D.Sc. from University College, London, for Palaeontology. Leakey is currently a Research Professor for the Turkana Basin Institute (affiliated with Stony Brook University. On 30 April 2013, Leakey was elected as a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences, with specialties of Geology and Anthropology. This made Leakey the first Kenyan citizen and also the first woman citizen of an African country to be elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences. She was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2017.
Selected publications
