Friday, February 8, 2013

Mary Leakey's 100th Birthday: A Look at Her Human Achievements

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Mary Leakey's 100th Birthday: A Look at Her Human Achievements

Today marks the 100th birthday of anthropologist Mary Leakey, whose extensive research in Africa's Rift Valley taught us that our ancestors had capabilities far beyond the image of the primitive, brutish Neanderthal (although the existence of Arnold

Google is honoring archeologist and anthropologist Mary Leakey's 100th birthday with a doodle. Born Mary Nicol on February 6th 1913 in London, Mary Leakey married anthropologist and archeologist Louis Leaky in 1936

Mary Leakey was an archaeologist and anthropologist from Britain, who discovered the first fossilized Proconsul (extinct ape believed to be ancestral to humans) skull. She also discovered the Zinjanthropus (Paranthropus, a genus of extinct hominins) skull.

New Delhi: Commemorating the 100th birthday of the British archaeologist and anthropologist Mary Leakey, Google has posted a doodle on its homepage. The doodle features Mary Leakey on an archaeological site, who looks busy with her excavation work.

She was a talented artist, specializing in early Stone Age, able to flawlessly draw early tools and artifacts. He had a passion for fossils since he found arrowheads and tools as a child. Together, Mary and Louis Leakey would change the scientific

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