# Louis Leakey (@louis-leakey)

Louis Leakey was a paleoanthropologist and science organizer. Leakey argued for Africa's central place in human evolution and built sustained research at Olduvai Gorge with Mary Leakey and large field teams.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Louis Leakey's public record._

## Topics

- [Building a Field](/@louis-leakey/building-a-field.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [African Human Origins](/@louis-leakey/african-human-origins.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Fossils and Publicity](/@louis-leakey/fossils-and-publicity.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://leakeyfoundation.org/about-us/the-leakey-family/
- blog: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG83908
- blog: https://humanorigins.si.edu/about/human-evolution-research

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "louis-leakey", "question": "…"}`.