Thursday, February 7, 2013

Mary Leakey's 100th Birthday

by Anura Guruge The related posts: >> Google Does Doodle For Sri Lanka — Feb. 4, 2013. >> All Of Google's Doodles & Games … — Jan. 16, 2013.

When Mary Douglas Nicol was born 100 years ago today, the idea of human physical evolution was only a few decades old, and very little evidence of any human-like creatures beyond ourselves and living apes had been

Today we celebrate the life and work of anthropologist/archaeologist Mary Leakey. In this Doodle, I wanted to highlight Leakey's work in the most charming way possible. I began by focusing on her discovery of the fossilized

Born on February 6 1913, Mary Leakey, despite the lack of formal archaeological training, is widely known for discovering the first fossilised Proconsul skull, an extinct ape now believed to be ancestral to humans, and the robust Zinjanthropus skull at

Today, Google posted its third birthday Doodle of the year, and British anthropologist Mary Leakey has joined Jackie Robinson and Frank Zamboni as this year's honorees! At this very moment, in the United States, women are

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