Expert field palaeontologist who made many key discoveries about early human evolution in East Africa.
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Louise Leakey is a Research Professor at Stony Brook University, National Geographic Explorer at Large and a researcher at the Turkana Basin Institute. She worked alongside Kamoya from when she was a child. Robert Foley is Leverhulme Professor of Human Evolution Emeritus at the University of Cambridge and worked with Kamoya in the field at Lake Turkana.
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Leakey, L.N., Foley, R.A. Kamoya Kimeu. Nat Ecol Evol 6, 1588–1589 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01900-1
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