leakey meaning and definition

LEAKEY noun

Definition of Leakey (noun)

1. 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)
   • synonyms: Richard Erskine Leakey, Richard Leakey
2. English paleontologist (the wife of Louis Leakey) who discovered the Zinjanthropus skull that was 1,750,000 years old (1913-1996)
   • synonyms: Mary Douglas Leakey, Mary Leakey
3. English paleontologist whose account of fossil discoveries in Tanzania changed theories of human evolution (1903-1972)
   • synonyms: Louis Leakey, Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey