English noun: Richard Leakey | |||
1. | Richard 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 | Leakey, Richard Erskine Leakey | ||
Instance hypernym | anthropologist, fossilist, palaeontologist, paleontologist | ||