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 …

Mary Anning (21 mai 1799 – 9 mars 1847) est une paléontologue autodidacte britannique. Ayant commencé par récolter des fossiles pour les revendre aux amateurs, elle est aujourd'hui reconnue comme une figure incontournable dans l’histoire de la paléontologie des vertébrés [1].

Laetoli is a pre-historic site located in Enduleni ward of Ngorongoro District in Arusha Region, Tanzania.The site is dated to the Plio-Pleistocene and famous for its Hominina footprints, preserved in volcanic ash.The site of the Laetoli footprints (Site G) is located 45 km south of Olduvai gorge.The location and tracks were discovered by archaeologist Mary Leakey and her …

Richard Erskine Frere Leakey FRS (19 December 1944 – 2 January 2022) was a Kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist and politician. Leakey held a number of official positions in Kenya, mostly in institutions of archaeology and wildlife conservation.He was Director of the National Museum of Kenya, founded the NGO WildlifeDirect and was the chairman of the …

Early life and education. Louise Leakey was born in Nairobi, Kenya, to Kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist and politician Richard Leakey and British paleoanthropologist Meave Leakey in 1972, the same year that her paleoanthropologist grandfather, Louis Leakey, died.She first became actively involved in fossil discoveries in …

Leakey is the son of Major General Rea Leakey and nephew of Victoria Cross recipient Nigel Leakey.Leakey was educated at Sherborne School. He is also related to the Victoria Cross recipient Joshua Leakey.. Military career. After attending the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Leakey was commissioned into the Royal Tank Regiment as a second lieutenant (on …

Events Pre-1600. 69 – The Roman legions in Germania Superior refuse to swear loyalty to Galba.They rebel and proclaim Vitellius as emperor.; 366 – The Alemanni cross the frozen Rhine in large numbers, invading the Roman Empire.; 533 – Mercurius becomes Pope John II, the first pope to adopt a new name upon elevation to the papacy.; 1492 – Reconquista: The Emirate of …

Charles Robert Darwin (Shrewsbury, 12 februari 1809 – Downe, 19 april 1882) was een Engelse autodidact op het gebied van natuurlijke historie, biologie en geologie.Darwin ontleent zijn roem aan zijn theorie dat evolutie van soorten wordt gedreven door natuurlijke selectie.Het bestaan van evolutie werd omstreeks 1850 al door een groot deel van de wetenschappelijke gemeenschap …

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A total of 130 languages are spoken in Tanzania; most of them are from the Bantu family. Swahili and English are the two official languages of Tanzania. However, Swahili is the national language. Given the conditions of the period, it was not possible to introduce Swahili in the entire educational system, because the scale of the task of writing or translating textbooks for primary …