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Mary Leakey was born on February 6, 1913
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Mary Nicol and Louis leakey married and had children.
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Mary and her partner, Louis, found the Proconsul africanus. The creature lived about 25 to 40 million years ago.
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Mary and her husband found Zinjanthropus boisei. The name meant "east african man". The ape like skeleton was found the be part of the Australopithecus genus
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Mary and Louis found the Homo habilis which the two named themselves. It later became known as the Australopithecus.
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Mary won the Habbard Medal of the National Geographic Society.
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In 1972, Mary's husband Louis died of a heart attack.
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Mary found sets of fossil hominid footprints. She found them while crossing a patch of hardened volcanic ash at Laetoli.
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Mary Leakey retired from fieldwork due to age and failing eyesight.
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Mary Leakey passed awayon December 9,1996 at age 83.
