NECROLOG

This month, we remember a record-breaking fossil hunter and champion of Kenyan wildlife and salute the many political failures of a Hampstead eccentric

CHIP HIRES / GAMMA-RAPHO VIA GETTY IMAGES RICHARD LEAKEY Celebrated as a palæoanthropologist who discovered more ground-breaking hominid fossils than anyone else, Richard Leakey, who has died aged 77, lived a colourful, controversial and varied life. The son of famed primatologist Louis Leakey, who held the record for discovering the most hominid fossils until Richard surpassed him, he went on his first fossil hunting expedition aged three and discovered his first important fossil at six – the jaw of an extinct giant pig. His formal education ended at 16 and he initially took a different path to his father, setting up a safari firm catering to tourists, but he was soon taking part in fossil hunting expeditions again, although he was angered by being sidelined by academics for his lack…

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