1. Kenyan paleoanthropologist (son of Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey) who continued his parents' work; he was appointed director of Kenya Wildlife Services but resigned under political pressure (born in 1944)
   - Leakey, Richard Erskine Leakey

Type of: anthropologist, fossilist [archaic], palaeontologist [Brit, Cdn], paleontologist [N. Amer]

Encyclopedia: Richard Leakey