RICHARD LEAKEY Synonyms
There are 4 hypernyms of the phrase richard leakey. (close relations)
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archaeologist | nounn | |||||||
noun • an anthropologist who studies prehistoric people and their culture | ||||||||
conservationist | nounn | |||||||
noun • someone who works to protect the environment from destruction or pollution | ||||||||
paleoanthropologist | nounn | |||||||
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leakey | verb, nounv, n | |||||||
noun • 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) • English paleontologist (the wife of Louis Leakey) who discovered the Zinjanthropus skull that was 1,750,000 years old (1913-1996) • English paleontologist whose account of fossil discoveries in Tanzania changed theories of human evolution (1903-1972) | ||||||||
richard erskine leakey | noun, adjectiven, adj | |||||||
noun • 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) |