Paleoanthropologists - Louis Leakey, Robert Broom, Milford H. Wolpoff, Richard Leakey, Donald Johanson, Loren Eiseley, Robert Corruccini, Zer (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 53. Chapters: Louis Leakey, Robert Broom, Milford H. Wolpoff, Richard Leakey, Donald Johanson, Loren Eiseley, Robert Corruccini, Zeresenay Alemseged, Arthur Keith, Paleoanthropology, Lee Rogers Berger, Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Research, Harold L. Dibble, Jean-Jacques Hublin, Mary Leakey, Peter Hiscock, Davidson Black, Henry McHenry, Allan Wilson, Raymond Dart, Phillip V. Tobias, Eugene Dubois, John Napier, Vincent Sarich, Tim D. White, Andre Leroi-Gourhan, Chris Stringer, Martin Pickford, Erik Trinkaus, Stanley Marion Garn, Franz Weidenreich, Teuku Jacob, John D. Hawks, Wilfrid Le Gros Clark, J. Desmond Clark, Jeffrey H. Schwartz, Meave Leakey, Eudald Carbonell, Glynn Isaac, Yohannes Haile-Selassie, Juan Luis Arsuaga, Johann Carl Fuhlrott, Anne Dambricourt-Malasse, Kenneth Oakley, Alan Walker, Richard Klein, Prudence Hero Napier, Miklos Kretzoi, Maurice Taieb, Kenneth A. R. Kennedy, Louise Leakey, Yves Coppens, Russell Tuttle, Russell Ciochon, Kamoya Kimeu, Valeri Pavlovich Alekseyev, Ian Tattersall, Jean Piveteau, Otto Schoetensack. Excerpt: Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey (L.S.B. Leakey) (August 7, 1903 - October 1, 1972) was a Kenyan archaeologist and naturalist whose work was important in establishing human evolutionary development in Africa. He also played a major role in creating organizations for future research in Africa and for protecting wildlife there. Having been a prime mover in establishing a tradition of palaeoanthropological inquiry, he was able to motivate the next generation to continue it, notably within his own family, many of whom also became prominent. Louis participated in national events of British East Africa and then Kenya in critical if less spectacular ways. In natural philosophy he asserted Charles Darwin's theory of evolution unswervingly and set about to prove Darwin's...