Meave Leakey
Meave Leakey | |
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Meave Leakey holding the medal of the City of Toulouse | |
| Born | Maeve Epps 28 July 1942 London, England |
| Alma mater | University of North Wales |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 2, including Louise Leakey |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Paleoanthropology |
| Institutions | Stony Brook University Turkana Basin Institute |
Meave G. Leakey (born Meave Epps; 28 July 1942) is a British palaeoanthropologist. She works at Stony Brook University and is co-ordinator of Plio-Pleistocene research at the Turkana Basin Institute. She studies early hominid evolution and has done extensive field research in the Turkana Basin. She has Doctor of Philosophy and Doctor of Science degrees.