Talk:Richard Leakey

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Contents 1 Turkana Boy 2 Kenyan vs British 3 Question about categories 4 Richard's siblings 5 A better photo of the subject? 6 Convert 7 Fair use rationale for Image:Richard Leakey on Time.jpg 8 Not clear 9 Marriages? 10 Archeologist or paleoanthropologist?

[edit] Turkana Boy

I saw the discovery of Turkana Boy also attributed to Kamoya Kimeu. If anyone knows for sure, they should clear it up here and on the Turkana Boy page. -- Walt Pohl 02:47, 2 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Turkana Boy was discovered by Kamoya Kimeu. This is widely acknowledged. --Ezeu 07:50, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Kenyan vs British

Vis-à-vis the (almost) revert war about Leakeys nationality, we need to claritfy some issues. Richard Leakey was born in Nairobi, Kenya. He holds a Kenyan passport. He lives in Kenya, and is a civil servant of the Kenyan government. He has done all the work he is renowned for in Kenya. His father was born in Kabete, Kenya (and was a British citizen because of geopolitics). His mother was a resident of Kenya. Insisting on calling Richard Leakey British only reveals the contributor's national, ideological and racial bias. --Ezeu 04:33, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Question about categories

Should he also be listed under all those British:Archelogist, British:Anthropologists, etc. categories? Thaths 04:54, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

No, he shouldnt. --Ezeu 07:00, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Richard's siblings

Opening snippet says that Richard is the "second of the three sons" of Louis Leakey and the younger brother of Colin Leakey. Colin's wiki entry says that he is the son of Louis and Frida Leakey. Wouldn't that make Colin the half-brother of Richard?

Biography paragraph says that he grew up with "his two brothers, Jonathan and Philip". Either the opening snippet is incorrect about "second of the three sons" or one of Richard's siblings is incorrectly identified by name in this section. -- Thaths 22:13, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] A better photo of the subject?

There has to be a better photo of the subject around that is not copyright encumbered. -- Thaths 20:23, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Convert

In one of his books, Richard Leakey depicts himself as a convert to atheism. He says he rebelled against his grand-father's Protestant opinions but Harry Leakey died in 1940, before Richard's birth. R. Leakey says he rebelled against his mother's former Catholicism, but this seems to have been abandoned before his time. He was sent to a non-catholic school in about 1955.

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 87.194.4.21 (talk) 09:46, 2 May 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Richard Leakey on Time.jpg

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[edit] Not clear

It is not clear what was broken, a leg or the skull, in the fall from the horse.

[edit] Marriages?

In the article there is a section about a marriage to a Margaret Cropper, but no mention of Meave Leakey with whom he has (at least) a daughter Louise Leakey (b. 1972). It looks like there is a big chunk missing out of his life. --j 22:02, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Archeologist or paleoanthropologist?

You state that Richard Leaky was an Archeologist but I think he is actually a paleoanthropologist as he studied the evolution of Hominids rather than ancient human civilisations (see the Leaky Foundation website). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.153.251.25 (talk) 21:56, 4 October 2007 (UTC)