Google celebrates Mary Leakey's 100th birthday today with a doodle. Mary Leakey was an anthropologist and archaeologist. Mary was born in 1913 in London and passed away in 1996.
She discovered the first fossilized Proconsul skull. She developed a system of classifying stone tools found at the Olduvai Gorge. She became a leading palaeoanthropologist and taught the skill to her son.
Mary Leakey is not well known but contributed greatly to her field of science. For more information on Mary Leakey go to wikipedia.
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