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What made Richard Erskine Frere Leakey famous?

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His own career began in 1968 when, as a paleoanthropologist without formal academic training, he received funding from the National Geographic Society to conduct research on human evolution at Lake Turkana (1969-75), where a Homo habilis dating from 1.9 million years ago was discovered (1972). With Roger Lewin, Leakey has written Origins (1977), The Making of Mankind (1981), and Origins Reconsidered (1992).

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