She stops, pauses, turns to the left to glance at some possible threat or irregularity, and then continues to the north. This motion, so intensely human, transcends time.

The Leakeys unearthed a Proconsul africanus skull on Rusinga Island in October 1948. By then Richard had decided to become a palaeoanthropologist. Olduvai Gorge: My Search for Early Man 1979
Africa's Vanishing Art: The Rock Paintings of Tanzania 1983


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She also discovered fifteen new species of other animals and one new genus. 75 million-years-old. She also discovered the robust Zinjanthropus skull at Olduvai Gorge.