He also played a key role in the autobiography of Mary Leakey.
For much of her career she worked together with her husband, Louis Leakey, in the Olduvai Gorge, in eastern Africa, uncovering the tools and fossils of ancient hominines.
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After the death of her husband, she became a leading palaeoanthropologist, helping to establish the Leakey tradition by training her son, Richard, in the field.
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Through Gertrude, Mary met Louis Leakey, who was in need of an illustrator for his book, Adam's Ancestors.
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Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey investigated the site in 1935, but were disappointed by the lack of burial sites.
The fossils were discovered on November 4, 1960 in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, by Jonathan and Mary Leakey.
Although she pursued many important archeological projects, mostly in the Mojave Desert in California, she spent much of her life working with Dr. Louis Leakey on the Calico Early Man Site in Yermo, California, however this lead to disagreements between Louis and her wife.
Kenya Forestry Research Institute, Kenya Agricultural Research Institute, Alliance High School, Alliance Girls High School, The Green Garden Schools, Jeverden Highlands Academy, St. Veronica I.L.C, Thogoto Teachers' College, Musa Gitau Primary School, and Mary Leakey Girls Secondary School at the fringes of the Nairobi city boundary, which was started by the famous Leakey family of archeologists.