Meave Leakey ( Meave G. Leakey , born July 28, 1942, London) is a British and Kenyan zoologist and paleoanthropologist , author of many anthropogenetic discoveries, wife of Richard Leakey .
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The researcher who described a number of zoological taxa . The names of these taxa (to indicate authorship) are accompanied by the designation " Leakey " . |
Member of the American Philosophical Society (2017 [1] ) and a foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (2013).
Biography
In 1965 she graduated from the University of North Wales in Bangor , where she studied zoology and, in particular, marine zoology [2] . For the next two years, she worked at the Primate Center in Tigoni , at the invitation of Luis Leakey . She studied the morphology of the forelimbs of monkeys in East Africa. In 1968, she received a Ph.D. in zoology from the University of Wales. In 1969, she began work in the detachment of Richard Leake in the area of Lake Turkana , in 1970 Miv and Richard got married.
Since 1989, she has led the expeditionary work to find the remains of an ancient person, in the 1990s she headed the department of paleontology at the National Museum of Kenya.
Its most significant findings were discovered in 1995 by Australopithecus anamensis , which, dating back to 4.1 million years, postponed the time of origin of Australopithecus and upright posture by another half a million years, and in 1999 - Kenyanthropus platyops [2] .
Honorary Fell of the Geological Society of London (2011). Member of the African Academy of Sciences (2013).
Awarded by the Award (2004) and the Hubbard Medal (2016) with the oldest and most prestigious US National Geographic Society Award.
Selected Bibliography
- Rene Bob & Meave G. Leakey (2009), "Ecology of Plio-Pliestocene Mammals in the Omo-Turkana Basin and the Emergence of Homo " , in Frederick E. Gine, John G. Fleagle, & Richard E. Leakey (editors) , The First Humans: Origin and Early Evolution of the Genus Homo , Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology, Conference publication: Springer, p. 175–184, ISBN 978-1-4020-9979-3 , < https://books.google.com.au/books?id=ITp_RnsPfzQC&pg=PA173&lpg=PA173&dq=%22M.G.+Leakey%22+meave&source= bl & ots = dh68kq0y-E & sig = PmpCIe2o6hWesaBuvjtNLwDiDsY & hl = en & ei = QXHbS5z2BpHm7APnhc2uBg & sa = X & oi = book_result & ct = result & resnum = 1 & ved = 0CAYQ6AEwAA # v = onepage & q =% 22M.G.% 20Leakey% 22% 20meave & f = to false >. Retrieved April 30, 2010.
- Lothagam: The Dawn of Humanity in Eastern Africa by John Harris and Meave Leakey, Eds. (December 2001).
- Leakey, Meave & Walker, Alan (June 1997), "Early Hominid Fossils from Africa," Scientific American T. 276 (6): 74–79
- Stratigraphy and Paleontology of Pliocene and Pleistocene Localities West of Lake Turkana, Kenya by John Harris, Meave Leakey, Eds. et al. (October 1988).
- Harris, JM; Brown, FH; Leakey, MG & Walker, AC (January 1, 1989), " Pliocene and Pleistocene Hominid-Bearing Sites from West of Lake Turkana, Kenya ", Science T. 239 (4835): 27–33 , DOI 10.1126 / science.239.4835.27
- MG Leakey, RE Leakey, JM Harris (editors) (1978), Koobi Fora Research Project: Researches into Geology, Palaeontology, and Human Origins , vol. Volume 1: The Fossil Hominids and an Introduction to their Context 1968-1974, Clarendon Press, ISBN 978-0-19-857392-0
Literature
- Faces // Online encyclopedia "Around the World"