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Richard Erskine Leakey

DEFINITIONS OF: Richard Erskine Leakey

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n English paleontologist (son of Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey) who continued the work of his parents; he was appointed director of a wildlife preserve in Kenya but resigned under political pressure (born in 1944)

Synonyms:
Leakey, Richard Leakey
Example of:
anthropologist
a social scientist who specializes in anthropology
fossilist, palaeontologist, paleontologist
a specialist in paleontology
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