Synonyms for leakey

Noun

1. Leakey, Richard Leakey, Richard Erskine Leakey, paleontologist, palaeontologist, fossilist, anthropologist

usage: English paleontologist (son of Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey) who continued the work of his parents; he was appointed director of a wildlife preserve in Kenya but resigned under political pressure (born in 1944)

2. Leakey, Mary Leakey, Mary Douglas Leakey, paleontologist, palaeontologist, fossilist, anthropologist

usage: English paleontologist (the wife of Louis Leakey) who discovered the Zinjanthropus skull that was 1,750,000 years old (1913-1996)

3. Leakey, Louis Leakey, Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey, paleontologist, palaeontologist, fossilist, anthropologist

usage: English paleontologist whose account of fossil discoveries in Tanzania changed theories of human evolution (1903-1972)