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