“His legacy is huge in many fields, not simply in the field of human evolution studies,” said family biographer Virginia Morell. “He was a force to be reckoned with.”
National Geographic Explorer Richard Leakey, the paleoanthropologist and conservationist who built upon his legendary family’s discoveries to shape our understanding of human origins, died on January 2 at the age of 77. Beyond his scientific contributions, Leakey also helped save Africa’s elephants and fight government corruption in his native Kenya.
Born Richard Erskine Frere Leakey in Nairobi, Kenya, on December 19, 1944, the grandson of English missionaries, Leakey grew up scratching in the dirt of Olduvai Gorge in East Africa alongside his fossil-hunting parents. He was just six when he found his first fossil, the jaw of an extinct giant pig.
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