Tag: Mary Leakey

Mary Leakey was a British paleoanthropologist born on this day in 1913. She discovered the first fossilized Proconsul skull, a species of extinct ape believed to have been ancestral to humans. Did you know that: • Carl Ramsauer, a German research physicist known for his discovery of the Ramsauer–Townsend effect, was born on this day […]

Paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey discovered the partial skull of a new species of early human ancestor, Zinjanthropus boisei or ‘Zinj’ (now called Paranthropus boisei), on this day in 1959 from Africa almost 2 million years ago. Did you know that: • Matthew Flinders published “A Voyage to Terra Australis”, detailing his circumnavigation of Australia, on this […]