ANTHROPOLOGIST

Mary Leakey

1913 - 1996

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Mary Douglas Leakey, FBA (née Nicol, 6 February 1913 – 9 December 1996) was a British paleoanthropologist who discovered the first fossilised Proconsul skull, an extinct ape which is now believed to be ancestral to humans. She also discovered the robust Zinjanthropus skull at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, eastern Africa. For much of her career she worked with her husband, Louis Leakey, at Olduvai Gorge, where they uncovered fossils of ancient hominines and the earliest hominins, as well as the stone tools produced by the latter group. Mary Leakey developed a system for classifying the stone tools found at Olduvai. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mary Leakey is the 19th most popular anthropologist, the 1,367th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,283rd in 2019) and the 7th most popular British Anthropologist.

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Mary Leakey ranks 19 out of 93. Before her are Clifford Geertz, Eugène Dubois, Birutė Galdikas, Knud Rasmussen, Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, and E. E. Evans-Pritchard. After her are Mary Douglas, Victor Turner, Wilhelm Schmidt, Marvin Harris, Raymond Dart, and Andrey Korotayev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Mary Leakey ranks 86. Before her are Roger Caillois, Israel Gelfand, 'Abd al-Ilah, Méret Oppenheim, Paul Grice, and Barrington Moore Jr.. After her are Osvaldo Moles, Alexander Pokryshkin, Bill Shankly, Victor Mature, Mark Felt, and Loretta Young. Among people deceased in 1996, Mary Leakey ranks 73. Before her are Brigitte Helm, Lucio Fulci, Toru Takemitsu, Spiro Agnew, Frida Boccara, and Robert, Archduke of Austria-Este. After her are Hans Blumenberg, Bob Paisley, Michel Debré, Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria, Pavel Sudoplatov, and Shūsaku Endō.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Mary Leakey ranks 1,367 out of 8,785. Before her are William Henry (1774), W. Montgomery Watt (1909), Adam Sedgwick (1785), Samuel Wallis (1728), Thomas Lawrence (1769), and Henry Royce (1863). After her are Mark Strong (1963), John Toshack (1949), George Fox (1624), Glenn Tipton (1947), Ælfthryth, wife of Edgar (940), and David Tomlinson (1917).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among anthropologists born in United Kingdom, Mary Leakey ranks 7. Before her are Jane Goodall (1934), James George Frazer (1854), Edward Burnett Tylor (1832), Gregory Bateson (1904), Alfred Radcliffe-Brown (1881), and E. E. Evans-Pritchard (1902). After her are Victor Turner (1920), Edmund Leach (1910), Ashley Montagu (1905), Jack Goody (1919), Hugh Falconer (1808), and Marilyn Strathern (1941).

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