![]() ![]() I had just got my PhD in zoology, studying monkey skeletons. I met Richard when I was running the centre. ![]() I phoned the number and Louis Leakey picked up. A boyfriend at the time found an advert on the back page of the Times for a research position at the Tigoni Primate Research Centre in Kenya. Fed up, I decided I would have to try something else. I had written to many marine centres around the world and got the same answer: they didn’t have facilities for a woman on a boat. How did you end up fossil hunting in Africa? You graduated in the 1960s with a degree in zoology and marine zoology from the University of Bangor and envisaged a career as a marine biologist. Meave, 78, is a professor at Stony Brook University, New York and director of field research at the non profit Turkana Basin Institute, a collaboration between the Leakey family and Stony Brook. ![]()
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