Louise Leakey (1972-) is a paleontologist from Kenya. She does research and field work related to human fossils in Eastern Africa. Together with her mother, Meave Leakey, she leads the Koobi Fora research project. Her father is Richard Leakey, whose parents Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey are also famous paleontologists. In 1977, at the age of six, she became the youngest person to find hominid fossils .
Louise Leakey received her IB from United Wor...
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Louise Leakey (1972-) is a paleontologist from Kenya. She does research and field work related to human fossils in Eastern Africa. Together with her mother, Meave Leakey, she leads the Koobi Fora research project. Her father is Richard Leakey, whose parents Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey are also famous paleontologists. In 1977, at the age of six, she became the youngest person to find hominid fossils .
Louise Leakey received her IB from United World College of the Atlantic, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology and Biology from University of Bristol. Later she got a PhD degree from University of London.
Louise Leakey was born in Kenya in 1972, the same year as her grandfather Louis Leakey died. She married Emmanuel de Merode, a Belgian primatologist in 2003. Their daughter Seiya was born in 2004.
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