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set gName = getat(["Leakey"],1)
@[]#IN THE BEGINNING###AT WORK IN AFRICA#SCIENTISTS CLASH ON FOSSILS FIND#HUMAN LINK GOES BACK 20M YEARS
One of Louis Leakey's sons, Richard, became a renowned conservationist in Kenya. However, he has recently fallen out with the authorities and is now a leading opponent of the present Kenyan leader, Daniel Arap Moi#When Leakey was writing his history of the Kikuyu, he was made a member of the tribe and admitted as a "second grade elder"#During the last years of his life, Leakey showed that a change in diet of monkeys led to change in their ability to reproduce - a discovery which he hoped might be applied to humans to help control the world's population explosion#Under British rule the Kikuyu were dispossessed of much of their land and replaced by European settlers. Settler life in Kenya became notorious for its racism and corruption #In 1963 Leakey claimed to have discovered evidence that Africa was once populated by midget rhinoceros, little taller than a large monkey#Leakey lived in East Africa most of his life, finally adopting Kenyan citizenship in 1964. #In the Thirties Leakey temporarily abandoned anthropology to write a study of the Kikuyu, the.largest tribe in Kenya. The book turned out to be so huge that his publishers refused to handle it unless he cut it by two thirds#As a student, Leakey had become an expert on medieval handwriting. Recruited by the Kenyan police during the second world war, Leakey solved criminal cases involving handwriting, such as ransom demands and forgeries
