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Born in Kenya, he studied at Cambridge University, graduating in 1926. He discovered several human and proto-human skeletons or partial skeletons at Olduvai Gorge and Rusinga Island , firmly outlining man's early ancestral tree.

Married to Mary Leakey, who made arguably the more important discoveries in the field. He is also the father of paleoanthropologist Richard LeakeyRichard Erskine Frere Leakey (born December 19, 1944), son of Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey, is a renowned Kenyan paleontologist and conservationist. Paleontology Richard Leakey started his career following in the footsteps of his famous parents with disco.

Louis Leakey died of a heart attackplaque builds up in the walls of blood vessels. Acute myocardial infarction AMI or MI , commonly known as heart attack is a serious, sudden heart condition characterized by varying degrees of chest pain, weakness, sweating, nausea, and vomiting, sometimes in 1972 at the age of 69.

Leakey's cousin, Rea LeakeyRea Leakey a cousin of anthropologist Louis Leakey, was a British tank commander, during World War II, of the 1st Royal Tank Regiment. During the battle for Fort Capuzzo, Leakey's reconnaissance tank was lacking its armament, 2 Vickers machine guns; howev, was a British tankM1A1 Abrams tank is a typical modern main battle tank. The turret is low-profile, well-integrated into the overall shape of the vehicle. A tank is a tracked and armoured combat vehicle ( armoured fighting vehicle), designed primarily to destroy enemy grou commander during World War IIWorld War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the world's nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. The war was fough.