Origin of the Species features two characters: Molly Starkie, an archaeologist, a middle-aged denizen of present-day Yorkshire (where the action is set), and Victoria, a prehistoric forebear four million years old, whom Molly has dug...
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17 July 1959: While her husband Louis was in bed with the...
National or international item
17 July 1959
While her husband Louis
was in bed with the flu, Mary Leakey
discovered the 1.75-million-year-old skull of australopithicus boisei, better known as Nutcracker Man, in Olduvai (or properly Oldubai) Gorge, Tanzania.
Europeans wrongly...
Texts
Leakey, Mary. Disclosing the Past. Doubleday, 1984.
