Meave G. Leakey

Meave G. Leakey

Meave G. Leakey (born Meave G. Epps, 1942), English palaeontologist and palaeoanthropologist.

She is married to paleontologist Richard Erskine Frere Leakey, son of paleoanthropologist and archaeologist Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey. Their daughter Louise N. Leakey is conducting palaeontological research.

Taxon names authored

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• 5 taxon names authored by Meave G. Leakey

Publications

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2001

• Leakey, M.G., Spoor, F., Brown, F.H., Gathogo, P.N., Kiarie, C., Leakey, L.N. & McDougall, I. 2001. New hominin genus from eastern Africa shows diverse Middle Pliocene lineages. Nature 410: 433–440. DOI: 10.1038/35068500 Reference page. 

2009

• Miller, E.R., Benefit, B.R., McCrossin, M.L., Plavcan, J.M., Leakey, M.G., El-Barkooky, A.N., Hamdan, M.A., Abdel Gawad, M.K., Hassan, S.M. & Simons, E.L. 2009. Systematics of early and middle Miocene Old World monkeys. Journal of Human Evolution 57(3): 195–211. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2009.06.006 Reference page.