Meave Leakey

Meave Leakey
Meave Leakey holding the medal of the City of Toulouse
Born
Maeve Epps

(1942-07-28) 28 July 1942 (age 82)
London, England
Alma materUniversity of North Wales
Spouse
(m. 1970; died 2022)
Children2, including Louise Leakey
Scientific career
FieldsPaleoanthropology
InstitutionsStony Brook University
Turkana Basin Institute

Meave G. Leakey (born Meave Epps; 28 July 1942) is a British palaeoanthropologist. She works at Stony Brook University and is co-ordinator of Plio-Pleistocene research at the Turkana Basin Institute. She studies early hominid evolution and has done extensive field research in the Turkana Basin. She has Doctor of Philosophy[1] and Doctor of Science[2] degrees.

  1. ^ "Bios: Meave Leakey". Retrieved 21 November 2014.
  2. ^ "Honorary Graduates". UCL. Archived from the original on 12 August 2016. Retrieved 21 November 2014.