Mary Leakey

/ˌmɛri ˌliki/
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Definitions of Mary Leakey
  1. noun
    English paleontologist (the wife of Louis Leakey) who discovered the Zinjanthropus skull that was 1,750,000 years old (1913-1996)
    synonyms: Leakey, Mary Douglas Leakey
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    anthropologist
    a social scientist who specializes in anthropology
    fossilist, palaeontologist, paleontologist
    a specialist in paleontology
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