Background
Louise Leakey was born in Nairobi, Kenya, to paleoanthropologist Meave Leakey in 1972, the same year that her famed paleoanthropologist grandfather Louis Leakey died.
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Louise Leakey was born in Nairobi, Kenya, to paleoanthropologist Meave Leakey in 1972, the same year that her famed paleoanthropologist grandfather Louis Leakey died.
University of London. University of Bristol.
She conducts research and field work on human fossils in Eastern Africa. She first became actively involved in fossil discoveries in 1977, at the age of six, when she became the youngest documented person to find a hominoid fossil. Louise Leakey received her International Baccalaureate from United World College of the Atlantic, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology and Biology from the University of Bristol.
She received a Doctor of Philosophy from the University College, London, in 2001.
In 1993, Louise Leakey joined her mother Meave Leakey as a co-leader of paleontological expeditions in Northern Kenya. The Koobi Fora research project, has been the main program behind some of the most notable hominid fossil discoveries of the past two decades, the most recent being Kenyanthropus platyops.
Louise Leakey has promoted an initiative to place digital models of fossil collections in a virtual laboratory African Fossils where models can be downloaded, 3D printed or cut in cardboard for reassembly.
