Leakey, Mary Douglas
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Leakey, Mary Douglas
English archaeologist and anthropologist. In 1948 she discovered, on Rusinga Island, Lake Victoria, East Africa, the prehistoric ape skull known as Proconsul, about 20 million years old; and human footprints at Laetoli, to the south, about 3.75 million years old.
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