leakey
2 definitions found
leakey - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :
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:
Leakey, 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: Leakey, Mary Leakey, Mary Douglas Leakey
]
3: English paleontologist whose account of fossil discoveries in
Tanzania changed theories of human evolution (1903-1972)
[syn: Leakey, Louis Leakey, Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey
]
leakey - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :
Leakey, TX (city, FIPS 42004)
Location: 29.72438 N, 99.76225 W
Population (1990): 399 (212 housing units)
Area: 1.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 78873
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