What is Louis Leakey?
{{Infobox Scientist |name = Louis Leakey |image =(left to right) Mary Douglas Nicol Leakey (1913-1996) and her husband Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey (1903-1972).jpg |image_size =250px |caption = Louis Leakey (right) with his wife [[Mary Leakey]] |birth_date = {{birth date|1903|8|7|df=y}} |birth_place = [[Kabete]], [[British East Africa]] (modern-day [[Kenya]]) |death_date = {{death date and age|1972|10|1|1903|8|7|df=y}} |death_place = [[London]], [[United Kingdom]] |residence = |citizenship = [[Kenya]]n, [[British people|British]] |nationality = [[Kenya]]n |spouse = [[Mary Leakey]] |field = [[Archaeology]], [[Paleoanthropologist|Paleoanthropology]], [[Paleontology]] |work_institutions = |alma_mater = |doctoral_advisor = |doctoral_students = |known_for = Pioneering the study of [[human evolution]], <br>human evolutionary development in Africa |author_abbrev_bot = |author_abbrev_zoo = |influences = |influenced = |prizes = |footnotes = |signature = }} [[File:Ke-map.png|thumb|right|260px|Map of Kenya.]] '''Louis Leakey''' (L.S.B. Leakey, 7 August 1903 – 1 October 1972) was a [[Kenya]]n [[Archaeology|archaeologist]], [[anthropologist]] and [[naturalist]]. His work was important in establishing [[human evolution]]ary development in [[East Africa]]. He also played a major role in creating organizations for future research in Africa and for protecting wildlife there. Leakey was the third of the three great anthropologists of [[British]] origin who made Africa their home: the others were [[Robert Broom]] and [[Raymond Dart]]. He started a tradition of [[Anthropology|palaeoanthropological]] inquiry in Kenya. His own family carried on the 'family firm'. Several of them became well-known anthropologists and [[fossil]] hunters. Louis took part in national events of [[British East Africa]] and then [[Kenya]] at critical times. In [[biology]] he asserted [[Char