The Leakey family who concentrated their studies in Kenya were working in what area?
Colin Leakey Colin Leakey Colin Louis Avern Leakey (born in Cambridge, in England, 13 December 1933, died 29 January 2018, Lincoln, England) was a leading plant scientist in the United Kingdom, a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge and of the Institute of Biology, and a world authority on beans. Colin Leakey was the son of Louis Leakey (1903–1972), the pioneering paleoanthropologist, and Frida (Avern) Leakey (1902-1993), of Newnham College, Cambridge. His paternal grandparents were Church of England missionaries in British East Africa; his father grew up amidst the Kikuyu people and spent almost all his life in what became Kenya. His parents
7958 Leakey with its orbital period. Based on only two observations at the Palmer Divide Observatory (), it is tentatively estimated that the size-ratio of the binary system is , which would give a 1-kilometer diameter for the satellite. The minor planet is named after the Leakey's, a family of Kenyan paleoanthropologists: Mary Leakey (1913–1996), her husband Louis Leakey (1903–1972), and their son Richard Leakey (born 1944). Working for many years in Tanzania and Kenya, they conclusively proved that human evolution began in Africa rather than Asia. Richard explored the Koobi Fora archaeological site in Kenya, where many Hominin fossils have been