Richard Leakey | |
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![]() Leakey in 1986 | |
Born | |
Died | 2 January 2022 Nairobi, Kenya | (aged 77)
Nationality | Kenyan |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Paleoanthropology |
Richard Leakey (19 December 1944 – 2 January 2022) was a Kenyan politician, paleoanthropologist and conservationist. He was second of the three sons of the anthropologists Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey. In 2007, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.