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Time 100: The Leakey Family

http://www.time.com/time/time100/scientist/profile/leakey.html

Time magazine's article about the Leakey family's contributions towards the field of human origins.

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The Leakey Legacy

http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/1996/Dec/hour2_122096.html

A discussion featuring Virginia Morrell, author of Ancestral Passions: The Leakey Family and the Quest for Humankind's Beginnings.

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The Leakey Foundation

http://www.leakeyfoundation.org/

Includes an outline of how the Leakeys uncovered the chain of human ancestry at Olduvai Gorge, with photographs of the couple.

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Mary Leakey

http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/edu/careers/leakey.html

Contains the text from several newspaper articles announcing the death of Mary Leakey.

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Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey (1903-1972)

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/leakey.htm

Biography and list of works of the archaeologist and anthropologist famous for research into human origins, from Pegasos.

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Koobi Fora Research Project

http://www.kfrp.com/

Continually updated field journal from Kenya written by Louise Leakey.

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