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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Meave G. Leakey 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 and Doctor of Science degrees.
Meave Leakey's Published Works
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- Global vegetation change through the Miocene/Pliocene boundary (1997) (1896)
- New four-million-year-old hominid species from Kanapoi and Allia Bay, Kenya (1995) (490)
- Growth processes in teeth distinguish modern humans from Homo erectus and earlier hominins (2001) (471)
- New hominin genus from eastern Africa shows diverse middle Pliocene lineages (2001) (324)
- Inactivation of CMP-N-acetylneuraminic acid hydroxylase occurred prior to brain expansion during human evolution (2002) (295)
- Lothagam : the dawn of humanity in eastern Africa (2003) (287)
- Browsing and grazing in elephants: the isotope record of modern and fossil proboscideans (1999) (278)
- Implications of new early Homo fossils from Ileret, east of Lake Turkana, Kenya (2007) (276)
- Diet of Paranthropus boisei in the early Pleistocene of East Africa (2011) (261)
- Morphology of Australopithecus anamensis from Kanapoi and Allia Bay, Kenya. (2001) (250)
- New specimens and confirmation of an early age for Australopithecus anamensis (1998) (248)
- Isotopic evidence of early hominin diets (2013) (223)
- Stratigraphy and paleontology of Pliocene and Pleistocene localities west of Lake Turkana, Kenya (1988) (182)
- Dietary changes of large herbivores in the Turkana Basin, Kenya from 4 to 1 Ma (2015) (178)
- Stable isotope-based diet reconstructions of Turkana Basin hominins (2013) (175)
- Dietary and environmental reconstruction with stable isotope analyses of herbivore tooth enamel from the Miocene locality of Fort Ternan, Kenya. (1997) (173)
- The retention of primary oxygen isotope compositions of fossil elephant skeletal phosphate (1994) (172)
- Was Australopithecus anamensis ancestral to A. afarensis? A case of anagenesis in the hominin fossil record. (2006) (155)
- New fossils from Koobi Fora in northern Kenya confirm taxonomic diversity in early Homo (2012) (154)
- Late Miocene to Pliocene carbon isotope record of differential diet change among East African herbivores (2011) (151)
- Lothagam: a record of faunal change in the late Miocene of East Africa (1996) (142)
- The new hominid species Australopithecus anamensis (1999) (140)
- Morphology of Afropithecus turkanensis from Kenya. (1988) (120)
- A new genus of large primate from the Late Oligocene of Lothidok, Turkana District, Kenya (1995) (118)
- Enamel thickness, microstructure and development in Afropithecus turkanensis. (2003) (115)
- Stable isotope ecology of the common hippopotamus (2008) (114)
- Comparative dental development and microstructure of Proconsul teeth from Rusinga Island, Kenya. (1998) (111)
- Diet of Theropithecus from 4 to 1 Ma in Kenya (2013) (110)
- A new Miocene hominoid from Kenya (1986) (109)
- The fossil hominids and an introduction to their context, 1968-1974 (1978) (108)
- Prey selectivity by crowned hawk-eagles on monkeys in the Kibale Forest, Uganda (1990) (101)
- Early Pliocene tetrapod remains from Kanapoi, Lake Turkana Basin, Kenya (2003) (89)
- The Omo‐Turkana Basin Fossil Hominins and Their Contribution to Our Understanding of Human Evolution in Africa (2011) (88)
- Theropithecus: Evolution of Theropithecus in the Turkana Basin (1993) (87)
- A second new Miocene hominoid from Kenya (1986) (86)
- An ecometric analysis of the fossil mammal record of the Turkana Basin (2016) (81)
- Faunal Change in the Turkana Basin during the Late Oligocene and Miocene (2011) (80)
- Presence of the Cercopithecid genus Theropithecus in Cueva Victoria (Murcia, Spain) (1995) (78)
- South Turkwel: a new pliocene hominid site in Kenya. (1999) (71)
- Ecology of Plio-Pleistocene Mammals in the Omo—Turkana Basin and the Emergence of Homo (2009) (70)
- Afropithecus: Function and Phylogeny (1997) (68)
- Creation of Temperate-Climate Intertidal Mudflats: Factors Affecting Colonization and Use by Benthic Invertebrates and their Bird Predators (1999) (65)
- Climatic effects on dental development ofTheropithecus oswaldi from Koobi Fora and Olorgesailie (1996) (64)
- Extinct large colobines from the Plio-Pleistocene of Africa (1982) (58)
- Associated ilium and femur from Koobi Fora, Kenya, and postcranial diversity in early Homo. (2015) (57)
- Four-million-year-old hominids from East Lake Turkana, Kenya. (1994) (55)
- Postcranial specimens of simiolus enjiessi and other primitive catarrhines from the early miocene of lake turkana kenya (1992) (54)
- 12.2. Isotope Paleoecology of the Nawata and Nachukui Formations at Lothagam, Turkana Basin, Kenya (2003) (53)
- Pliocene and Pleistocene Hominid-Bearing Sites from West of Lake Turkana, Kenya (1988) (52)
- Early hominid fossils from Africa. (1997) (48)
- A new skeleton of Theropithecus brumpti (Primates: Cercopithecidae) from Lomekwi, West Turkana, Kenya. (2002) (48)
- A new Miocene small-bodied ape from Kenya (1987) (47)
- Stable isotope ecology of fossil hippopotamids from the Lake Turkana Basin of East Africa (2008) (47)
- Morphology of Turkanapithecus kalakolensis from Kenya. (1988) (46)
- New cercopithecoids and a hominoid from 12.5 Ma in the Tugen Hills succession, Kenya. (2002) (43)
- Systematics of early and middle Miocene Old World monkeys. (2009) (38)
- Early Miocene Cercopithecids from Buluk, Northern Kenya (1985) (38)
- 2.1. Stratigraphy and Depositional History of the Lothagam Sequence (2003) (37)
- New Oligocene Vertebrate Localities from Northern Kenya (Turkana Basin) (2010) (36)
- Environmentally Driven Dietary Adaptations in African Mammals (2005) (36)
- Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction: evidence for seasonality at Allia Bay, Kenya, at 3.9 million years (2003) (34)
- 12.1. Stable Isotope Ecology of Northern Kenya, with Emphasis on the Turkana Basin (2003) (33)
- Similarities in Aegyptopithecus and Afropithecus facial morphology. (1991) (32)
- The Last Human: A Guide to Twenty-Two Species of Extinct Humans (2007) (30)
- 3.2. Fossil Fish Remains from Mio-Pliocene Deposits at Lothagam, Kenya (2003) (29)
- 4.2. Late Miocene–Early Pliocene Crocodilian Fauna of Lothagam, Southwest Turkana Basin, Kenya (2003) (28)
- Hominin diversity in the Middle Pliocene of eastern Africa: the maxilla of KNM-WT 40000 (2010) (27)
- Theropithecus: A partial catalogue of fossil remains of Theropithecus (1993) (26)
- Stable Carbon and Oxygen Isotopes in East African Mammals: Modern and Fossil (2010) (25)
- Absence of the subarcuate fossa in cercopithecids (1996) (20)
- N-glycolyl groups of nonhuman chondroitin sulfates survive in ancient fossils (2017) (19)
- 9.2. Systematics and Evolutionary Biology of the Late Miocene and Early Pliocene Hipparionine Equids from Lothagam, Kenya (2003) (18)
- The fossil monkeys (2008) (16)
- Enamel and dentine development and the life history profile of Victoriapithecus macinnesi from Maboko Island, Kenya. (2004) (16)
- Middle Pliocene hominin diversity: Australopithecus deyiremeda and Kenyanthropus platyops (2016) (16)
- A new hominin calvaria from Ileret (Kenya). (2003) (15)
- Reply: Miocene/Pliocene shift: one step or several? (1998) (15)
- Geology and vertebrate paleontology of the Early Pliocene site of Kanapoi, Northern Kenya. Introduction. (2003) (14)
- An Exploratory Study on the Combined Effects of External and Internal Morphology on Load Dissipation in Primate Capitates: Its Potential for an Understanding of the Positional and Locomotor Repertoire of Early Hominins (2011) (13)
- Reconstruction, endocranial form and taxonomic affinity of the early Homo calvaria KNM-ER 42700. (2018) (13)
- 6.1. Cercopithecidae from Lothagam (2003) (12)
- The Faunal Context (1993) (12)
- A Brief History of Research at Koobi Fora, Northern Kenya (2006) (12)
- The taxonomic status of KNM-ER 42700: A reply to Baab (2008a) (2008) (11)
- Correlation of cranial and mandibular prognathism in extant and fossil hominids (2005) (10)
- Early Pleistocene Mammals of Africa: Background to Dispersal (2010) (10)
- 8.1. Elephantoidea from Lothagam (2003) (9)
- New hominin fossils from Ileret (Kolom Odiet), Kenya (2015) (7)
- 11.2. Bovidae from the Lothagam Succession (2003) (7)
- 10.1. Fossil Hippopotamidae from Lothagam (2003) (7)
- Complete permanent mandibular dentition of early Homo from the upper Burgi Member of the Koobi Fora Formation, Ileret, Kenya. (2019) (7)
- 4.1. Fossil Turtles from Lothagam (2003) (6)
- A comparative analysis of the KNM-ER 42700 hominin calvaria from Ileret (Kenya). (2005) (6)
- Hominin dental remains from the Pliocene localities at Lomekwi, Kenya (1982-2009). (2020) (6)
- Small-scale environmental fluctuations and their possible effects on cognitive evolution and migration of Homo (2009) (4)
- 8.3. Fossil Aardvarks from the Lothagam Beds (2003) (4)
- The Turkana Database: an archive of vertebrate evolution in eastern Africa (2011) (4)
- Histological study of Proconsul teeth from Rusinga Island, Kenya (1997) (4)
- 9.1. Lothagam Rhinocerotidae (2003) (4)
- 6.2. The Lothagam Hominids (2003) (4)
- Reply to Godfrey et al.: Outside the box (2011) (3)
- Reply to Fontes-Villalba et al.: On a reluctance to conjecture about animal food consumption (2013) (3)
- New early Homo fossils from Koobi Fora, northern Kenya (2012) (3)
- Current eventsA note on the reported occurrence of very early Homo from West Lake Turkana, Kenya (1994) (2)
- The dawn of humans: the farthest horizon (1995) (2)
- Appendix. Notes on the Reconstructions of Fossil Vertebrates from Lothagam (2003) (2)
- The Turkana Basin (2011) (2)
- Great ape semicircular canal size: shared adaptation or phylogeny? The evidence from Theropithecus oswaldi. (2001) (2)
- Correlation of prognathism in fossil hominin skulls. (2003) (1)
- 11.1. Lothagam Giraffids (2003) (1)
- Implications of a New Aff. Hippopotamus Karumensis Mandible From the Koobi Fora Formation, Turkana Basin, Kenya (2014) (1)
- The power of place : climate change as driver of hominin evolution and dispersal over the past five million years (2011) (1)
- New hominin fossil humeri from Koobi Fora: implications for Homo erectus (sensu lato) origins and diversity. (2016) (0)
- History of the anthropoid : the search for the beginning (2005) (0)
- The Flat-Faced Human from Kenya (2001) (0)
- Project , Volume 6 : The Fossil Monkeys (2010) (0)
- Pelvic inlet shape and sex determination from a fragmentary fossil pelvis (2014) (0)
- Virtual reconstruction of the KNM-ER 42700 (H.erectus) endocast (2013) (0)
- The Search for Humanity's Earliest Origins (1997) (0)
- Bone Clones' "re-creation" of Kenyanthropus (2002) (0)
- The endocast of KNM-ER 42700 a new Homo erectus from Ileret, Kenya. (2006) (0)
- Morphological description and identification of an extraordinary new elephant cranium from the early Pliocene of Ileret, Kenya (2021) (0)
- 8.2. Deinotheres from the Lothagam Succession (2003) (0)
- New hominin discoveries from the Nachukui Formation, west of Lake Turkana. (2001) (0)
- Origins of homo sapiens : East African roots (2005) (0)
- Neanderthal News: Extinct Species Exhibits Variability (2019) (0)
- 40 Ar/ 39 Ar eruption ages of Turkana Basin tuffs: millennial scale resolution constrains paleoclimate proxy tuning models and hominin fossil ages (2023) (0)
- A guide to Koobi Fora : the east Turkana fossil sites (1988) (0)
- A comparative study of Pliocene hominin fossils from Lomekwi, west of Lake Turkana (Kenya). (2002) (0)
- Giant Fossil Baboons (1979) (0)
- The Turkana Basin Institute (2011) (0)
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