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Origins-Expert at UNC-G
Dr. Mary D. Leakey, a world
renowned anthropologist
who has devoted her life to
studying the origins of man,
will deliver the annual Harriet
Elliott Lecture on Feb. 27 at
the University of North Carolina
at Greensboro.
Dr. Leakey, originally
from England, now lives in
Tanzania in East Africa.
She will speak at 8:15 p.m.
in Cone Ballroom of Elliott
University Center at UNC-G.
Her topic will be "Recent Dis
coveries in Human Anthro
pology." The lecture is free
and open to the public.
The Elliott Lecture is held
annually in honor of the late
Miss Harriet W. Elliott, who
for many years was dean of
women and professor of poli
tical science at UNC-G.
"I don't think we could
get anyone in anthropology to
come to our campus who is
more eminent than Dr.
Leakey," said Dr. Louise
Robbins, an associate profes
sor of anthropology at UNC-G.
"We are very fortunate to
have her come, because she is
not given to making public
addresses. This is one of the
few places in the country
where she will be appearing
this year. She much prefers
research to public speaking."
Dr. Robbins said Dr.
Leakey will be coming to
Washington, D.C. to confer
with associates at the National
Geographic Magazine imme
diately before coming to
UNC-G.
Dr. Leakey ranks in the top
three or four people in her
field in the entire world,
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noted Dr. Robbins. "She is
the world authority on East
African prehistory," added
Dr. Robbins. "Her discoveries
rank among the most import
ant ones in the field of human
evolution because of the time
depth."
One of Dr. Leakey's most
important discoveries came in
1975, when she announced
that she had found fossil
evidence that true man (genus
homo) lived in East Africa
approximately 3.75 million
years ago, almost a million
years earlier than had been
previously established. The
fossils, which included the
teeth and lower jaws of 11
hominid (manlike) individuals,
were found at a volcanic ash
site called Laetolil, 25 miles
south of Olduvai Gorge in
Tanzania, East Africa.
For many years. Dr. Leakey
worked with her husband, the
famed anthropologist Dr.
Louis S.B. Leakey, in search
ing for evidence of the origin
of man at Olduvai Gorge. The
two pursued their work
together for more than three
decades before Leakey's
death in 1972.
One of their most important
discoveries came in 1959,
when Mrs. Leakey found the
1.75 million-year-old primate
skull, known as Zinjanthropus,
in Olduvai Gorge. This dis
covery pushed back by nearly
one million years the accepted
date of man's evolution.
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Elliott Lecture, a screening of
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February 14,1978