2 Quotes & Sayings By Mary Leakey

Mary Leakey is an American paleontologist specializing in primate fossils. She is best known for her discovery of the first new hominid species in nearly 20 years in 1994, Australopithecus deyiremeda, at Laetoli in Tanzania. She also discovered the Taung child, an infant hominid skeleton discovered in South Africa in 1924. Leakey's discovery of Australopithecus bahrelghazali in Ethiopia in 1983 shed new light on the origin of the human genus and gave rise to a new discipline of paleoanthropology.