Louis Leakey

The Life and Discoveries of Louis Leakey Me: Hi and welcome to this is your life. Tonight’s guest is the one and only Louis Leakey. (Throws arms in the air in excitement then adjusts glasses). Louis: Um ... Hi Me: (Laughs awkwardly) Anyway… Louis along with his wife Mary were both very passionate about their research into evolution and proving Darwin’s Out of Africa theory. Louis: Oh yes, yes together we created many research questions we wished to investigate. Some of these questions were

be extremely difficult.” This is one thing Leakey Louis Seymour said before he had helped discover that humans came from evolution. Raising money was tough for him because he had taken three trips before this and he hadn’t discovered much yet, so people did not want to support another exposition where he would find nothing. Many didn’t know that he was on his way to be a vast part in history and nobody would forget his name. In the first place, Leakey was famous because of his discovery with Darwin

increase in brain size and also the first to be found associated with stone tools. These characteristics resulted in this species’ placement into the human genus, Homo. Discovery The first fossil was found in 1960 when a team led by scientists Louis and Mary Leakey uncovered the fossilized remains of a unique early human at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania.  Because this early human had a combination of features different from those seen in

Dian Fossey Dian Fossey to me was a very mysterious, somewhat helpful and kind of troublemaking person. She seemed very adventurous and fun but she was also very serious. When it came to her job she was always serious. Dian Fossey studied gorillas. To me it is amazing how seriously she took that job. She did everything she could to protect those gorillas. I think the gorillas brought her happiness but also sadness, and other emotional problems. Dian Fossey lived up on a mountain by her self

The late Dr. Stella Ameyo Adadevoh was a Nigerian doctor specializing in endocrinology. Dr. Adadevoh was also the first Nigerian doctor on the forefront of the first confirmed case of Ebola in Nigeria. Some, now, are calling her a patriot, and a true woman of courage. Due to her efforts to keep her patient in the hospital and not allowing him to flee, or leave in an attempt to keep Ebola confined and reduce the risk of a spread to the population of Nigeria. The first confirmed case was brought to

human species to have a notable increase in brain size and be found with stone tools. Through an observation of Homo habilis, we can see large similarities between humans within this common ancestors characteristics. Homo habilis was discovered by Louis and Mary Leaky and their other coworkers Johnathan Leaky, Philip Tobias, and British Scientist John Naiper, in 1960. They both believed that humanities roots in Africa had been taken for granted and that people weren’t

and thin to protect the lives of one of the most threatened species today. Dian Fossey was a normal young lady that had the dream of taking part in the research of gorillas in Africa. She attended a conference one evening that was given by Dr. Louis Leaky. Dr. Leaky talked about the enormous problem of keeping the gorillas that roamed the Virunga Mountains of Africa from going extinct. He explained the

1959 Mary Leakey saw a bone sticking out of the ground and with a little bit of investigation she realized it looked very similar to hominid teeth. She called he husband to gather the excavation team to the site to start digging to see what else they could uncover. They found hundreds of skull fragments which when they reconstructed it proved the existence of early hominids in East Africa. This discovery would rock the anthropology community as hard evidence proved Mary and Louis Leakey right about

behavioural adaptations of early Homonins, taking into account the factors of diet, ranging patterns, and the development of social behaviour. Oldowan technology was first discovered at the Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, site in the 1930s by Lewis and Mary Leakey. It has been dated to approximately 2.5 to 1.5 million years ago during the late Pliocene and early Pleistocene (Potts 1981:153), predating any other form of currently known lithic industries. Acheulean technology is more recent, dated to between

then said Louis had an announcement. The stadium grew quiet as Louis walked to the front of the stage “Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of Larry Stylinson things going around and there is something I want to say about it.” He glanced over at one of the Modest members who was signaling for him to stop talking but he ignored him and looked back at Harry and motioned for him to come over to him. “How many people here believe Harry and I are in a relationship?”The crowd began cheering then Louis got them