The leakey foundation is proud to carry on louis leakey's legacy as we work to fulfill his dream of increasing scientific research and public understanding of human origins, evolution, behavior, and survival In 1968, a group of supporters banded together to form the l.s.b leakey foundation for research related to man's origins, now known as the leakey foundation, to help secure funding for vital human origins research projects With your support, we have given more than 2,500 grants to conduct research in 110 countries.
Louis Leakey
Leakey the english anthropologist louis leakey was known primarily for his discovery of proconsul africanus, his interpretation of zinjanthropus, his announcing the discovery of homo habilis, and his great influence on primatology.
The leakey's first important african discovery (in 1948) was the skull of a miocene hominoid, which louis named proconsul africanus
Leakey, the visionary scientist who redefined the narrative of human ancestry and laid crucial groundwork for future evolutionary studies. Louis leakey, with wife mary, was a famed paleoanthropologist who greatly contributed to world knowledge about humanity's early ancestors. Apart from his numerous activities in the fields of paleontology, archeology, and anthropology, he achieved prominence as a naturalist, historian, political analyst, handwriting expert, and administrator. His work was important in establishing human evolutionary development in east africa.
