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Mary Leakey

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Profession
Paleontologist
Died
Dec 9, 1996
Zodiac
Aquarius
Born in
England
About
British paleoanthropologist who worked for most of her career in the Olduvai Gorge, in eastern Africa, uncovering the tools and fossils of ancient hominines believed to be more than 3.75 million-years-old. She is also known for discovering the Laetoli footprints as well as ifteen new species of other animals, and one new genus.
Family
She worked with her husband, Louis Leakey, a British archaeologist who she married in 1936 and had three songs with.

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