noun
1. English paleontologist (son of Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey) who continued the work of his parents; he was appointed director of a wildlife preserve in Kenya but resigned under political pressure (born in 1944)
• Syn: ↑Richard Leakey, ↑Richard Erskine Leakey
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑paleontologist, ↑palaeontologist, ↑fossilist, ↑anthropologist
2. English paleontologist (the wife of Louis Leakey) who discovered the Zinjanthropus skull that was 1,750,000 years old (1913-1996)
• Syn: ↑Mary Leakey, ↑Mary Douglas Leakey
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑paleontologist, ↑palaeontologist, ↑fossilist, ↑anthropologist
3. English paleontologist whose account of fossil discoveries in Tanzania changed theories of human evolution (1903-1972)
• Syn: ↑Louis Leakey, ↑Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑paleontologist, ↑palaeontologist, ↑fossilist, ↑anthropologist
Useful english dictionary. 2012.