What is Meave Leakey?
[[File:Meave Leakey at Toulouse City Hall - 2014.jpg|thumb]] '''Meave G. Leakey''' [[PhD]] [[DSc]] (hon) is a renowned [[paleontologist]] who studies the origin of mankind in [[West Africa]]. She was born Meave Epps, 28 July 1942 in [[London]], and was married to [[Richard Leakey]], the son of [[Louis Leakey|Louis]] and [[Mary Leakey]]. She is a research professor at [[Stony Brook University]]. They have two children, Louise (born 1972) and Samira (born 1974). Her daughter [[Louise Leakey]] is also a paleontologist studying human origins. Dr. Leakey's research team at [[Lake Turkana]], [[Kenya]] made a discovery in 1999 that changed our understanding of early human ancestry. They found a 3.5 million-year-old [[skull]] and partial [[jaw]] thought to belong to a new branch of our early human family. She named the find ''[[Kenyanthropus platyops]]'', or flat-faced man of Kenya.<ref>{{cite journal |authorlink= |year=2001 |title=New hominin genus from eastern Africa shows diverse middle Pliocene lineages |journal=[[Nature]] |volume=410 |issue= 6827|pages=433–440 |doi=10.1038/35068500 |pmid=11260704 |s2cid=4409453 |url= |accessdate= |quote= |last1=Leakey |first1=Meave G. |last2=Spoor |first2=Fred |last3=Brown |first3=Frank H. |last4=Gathogo |first4=Patrick N. |last5=Kiarie |first5=Christopher |last6=Leakey |first6=Louise N. |last7=McDougall |first7=Ian |bibcode=2001Natur.410..433L }}</ref> == The Leakey family == {{familytree/start}} {{familytree | | FRI |y| LOU |y| MAR | | | | | | | | FRI=[[Frida Avern]] | LOU=[[Louis Leakey]] | MAR=[[Mary Leakey|Mary Nicol]] }} {{familytree | | |,|-|'| | | |`|-|v|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|v|-|-|-|.| }} {{familytree | | COL | | MEA |y| RIC |~| MAR | | JON | | PHI | | COL=[[Colin Leakey]] | MEA=Meave Epps | RIC=[[Richard Leakey]] | MAR=[[Margaret Cropper]] | JON=[[Jonathan Leakey]] | PHI=[[Philip Leakey]] }} {{familytree | | | | | | | | |!| | | | | | }} {{familytree | | | | | | | | LOU |~| EMM | | | | LOU=[[Louise Leakey]] | EMM=[[Emmanuel de Merode]] }} {{familytree/end}} == References == {{