Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)

FOSSIL HUNTER MARY LEAKEY DIES AT 83.(News)(Obituary)

From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Date: December 10, 1996 | Copyright information

Mary Leakey, the world famous fossil hunter who in 1978 discovered footprints that are the oldest evidence of origins of man, died in Kenya's capital yesterday. She was 83.

``Dr. Mary Leakey, mother of Jonathan, Richard and Philip, died peacefully,'' Leakey's son, paleontologist and politician Richard Leakey, said in a brief statement.

Mary Leakey and her husband, anthropologist Louis Leakey, who died in 1972, together discovered the fossils of the 1.75 million-year-old Homo habilis in a dig at Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge in 1964.

``In the 1950s and 1960s Louis got most ...

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