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hominids found
Langavata (spring)
Language
Lascaux caves, Dordogne, France
Late Stone Age
Le Gros Clark, Wilfrid
Leakey, Frida
Leakey, Jonathan (Louis Leakey’s son)
Leakey, Louis
Adam’s Ancestors
on Black Skull discovery
death
disabled by arthritis
divorce
early archeology
early life
East African expeditions
and Hans Reck
as inspirational
on Johanson-White hypothesis
Lake Turkana expeditions. See Turkana, Lake (Jade Sea), expeditions
later career
marriage to Mary
meets Mary Nicol
as museum curator
and Pre-Zinjanthropus controversy
reputation, tarnished
rivalry, with son Richard. See Leakey, Richard (Louis Leakey’s son)
on Robert Broom
and Sir Arthur Keith
‘Stone Age Man in Kenya Colony’
The Stone Age Races of Kenya
Stone Age Races of Kenya
university career
White African
Leakey, Maeve Epps (Richard’s second wife)
Leakey, Margaret (Richard’s first wife)
Leakey, Mary (formerly Nicol)
as archaeologist
on classification of Laetoli hominids
and Don Johanson
early life and education
on First Family
on Homo erectus
marriage to Louis
receives Golden Linnaen Medal
Leakey, Richard (Louis Leakey’s son)
and Don Johanson
on First Family
as head of Kenyan civil service
lack of credentials
Lake Turkana expeditions
marriages
as National Museum director
One Life
rivalry with father
Leakey Foundation
Léopoldville (now Kinshasa)
Leroi-Gourhan, Arlette
Levant
Lewin, Riger
LH-4
Lieberman, Daniel
Little Foot
Liverpool University
Locum
Lokal Anzeiger
Lokalelei site, Kenya
Lomekwi River site
Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico
Lothagam Hill, Western Turkana
Lovejoy, Owen
Loveridge, Arthur
Lucy (fossil). See also Australopithicus afarensis
classification of
discovery of
as type specimen
Lucy (Johanson)
‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’ (Beatles song)
Lucy’s Child (Johanson)
Lucy’s child (skeleton, OH 62)
Lukeino Formation
Maasai Steppe
Malapa, Sterkfontein cave
Man Rises to Parnassus (Osborn)
Mangao, Wambua
Manica, Andrea
Marean, Curtis
Maslin, Mark
Matrix
Mayr, Ernst
McBrearty, Sally
McBrearty, Sally and Alison Brooks, ‘The Revolution That Wasn’t’
Meat-eating, and brain development
Mediterranean lands
Mediterranean sea, Miocene age
Mellars, Paul
Mendel, Gregor
Mesochoerus (fossil pig)
Middle Awash Research Group
Middle Stone Age
Migration, of early hominids
coastline
Miller, Jack
Miocene apes, found at Lake Turkana
Miocene period
apes in
climate
hominids
‘missing link’
Mission Paléoanthropologique Franco-Tchadienne (MPFT)
Mitochondria
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA)
Modern synthesis
Molecular biology
Molecular clock
Molefe, Nkwane
Morell, Virginia
Morphology
Morphology and Anthropology (Duckworth)
Mosquito swarms
Motsumi, Stephen
Mount Toba
‘Mountain of God’ (Ol doinyo Lengai)
Mountains of the Moon
Mousterian tools
Mozambique
Mrs. Ples (Plesianthropus africanus)
Mugharet as Skhul
Mukiri, Heselon
Multiregional evolution
Multiregional evolution hypothesis
Musée de l’Homme
Mutation
Nairobi, Kenya
Kabete
Tigoni research center
Nairobi Museum
Nakuru, Lake
Namaqualand, South Africa
Napier, John
Nariokotome river, near Lake Turkana
National Academy of Sciences (United States)
National Geographic magazine
National Geographic Society
Research and Exploration Committee
National Museum of Nairobi
National Museum of Natural History, Paris
National Science Foundation
Natural History (journal)
Natural History Museum, London
Natural selection
and climate change
definition
Nature (journal)
Neanderthal Man
Neo-Darwinian synthesis
Nesbitt, Lewis
New Discoveries Relating to the Antiquity of Man (Keith)
New Guinea, bird studies
New Scientist
New Theory of Human Evolution, A (Keith)
New York Academy of Sciences
New York Times
Newsweek
Ngeneo, Bernard
Ngorongoro
Ngorongoro Crater
Nicol, Mary (later Leakey). See Leakey, Mary (formerly Nicol)
Njoro, Kenya
Nobel Symposium, Stockholm, May 1978,
North Africa
Chad
climate change
Nutcracker Man
Oakley, Kenneth
OH 62 (Lucy’s child)
Okavango