Richard Leakey

Richard Erskine Frere Leakey (born December 19, 1944) is a paleontologist, archaeologist and an activist, known for his discovery of "Turkana Boy" and his fight to preserve wildlife of the African continent.

Works

• with Roger Lewin, Origins, Dutton, 1977
• One Life: An Autobiography, Salem House, 1983
• with Roger Lewin, Origins Reconsidered, Doubleday, 1992
• The Origin of Humankind, BasicBooks & HarperCollins, 1994.
  • Originea omului, trans. Ion Oprescu and Ana Maria Glavce, Bucharest: Humanitas, 1995. (Romanian)
  • Die ersten Spuren. Über den Ursprung des Menschen, trans. Udo Rennert, Munich: Wilhelm Goldmann, 1999. (German)
• with Frederick E. Grine and John G. Fleagle (eds.), The First Humans - Origin and Early Evolution of the Genus Homo, Springer, 2009.

Links

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Leakey
• http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Richard_Leakey
• http://www.leakey.com/