National Geographic Explorer at Large Louise Leakey directs expeditions at the ... proclaimed the youngest documented person to find a hominid fossil. Raised in East Africa, she was educated ...

Louis (also known as L.S.B.) Leakey wrote about their discovery for National Geographic magazine in 1960 ... parts of the upper teeth and skull of a hominid no one had recorded before, eroding ...

The co-recipient (together with Louis) of the 1962 Hubbard Medal - the highest honour from the National Geographic Society - had three children: Jonathan, Richard and Philip Leakey. Jonathan ...