Meave Leakey

Meave Leakey
Meave Leakey holding the medal of the City of Toulouse
Born	Maeve Epps (1942-07-28) 28 July 1942 (age 82) London, England
Alma mater	University of North Wales
Spouse	Richard Leakey ​ ​ (m. 1970; died 2022)​
Children	2, including Louise Leakey
Scientific career
Fields	Paleoanthropology
Institutions	Stony Brook University Turkana Basin Institute

Meave G. Leakey (born Meave Epps; 28 July 1942) is a British palaeoanthropologist. She works at Stony Brook University and is co-ordinator of Plio-Pleistocene research at the Turkana Basin Institute. She studies early hominid evolution and has done extensive field research in the Turkana Basin. She has Doctor of Philosophy^[1] and Doctor of Science^[2] degrees.