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English noun: Leakey | |||
| 1. | Leakey (person) English paleontologist (son of Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey) who continued the work of his parents; he was appointed director of a wildlife preserve in Kenya but resigned under political pressure (born in 1944) | ||
| Synonyms | Richard Erskine Leakey, Richard Leakey | ||
| Instance hypernym | anthropologist, fossilist, palaeontologist, paleontologist | ||
| 2. | Leakey (person) English paleontologist (the wife of Louis Leakey) who discovered the Zinjanthropus skull that was 1,750,000 years old (1913-1996) | ||
| Synonyms | Mary Douglas Leakey, Mary Leakey | ||
| Instance hypernym | anthropologist, fossilist, palaeontologist, paleontologist | ||
| 3. | Leakey (person) English paleontologist whose account of fossil discoveries in Tanzania changed theories of human evolution (1903-1972) | ||
| Synonyms | Louis Leakey, Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey | ||
| Instance hypernym | anthropologist, fossilist, palaeontologist, paleontologist | ||
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