In nairobi , goodall was introduced to louis leakey , the scientist whose fossil discoveries had finally proved mankind 's roots were african , not asian , as had previously been supposed .
If this is so , then the smaller , mostly east african forms now attributed to homo , including louis leakey 's original toolmaker h. habilis , would become a branch of the family tree that simply petered out .
Dr leakey is a member of an illustrious palaeontological clan .
利基博士是一个杰出的古生物学家族的成员之一。
The intertwining history of the human family and the leakey family has just become even more complicated .
人类大家庭和利基一家相互交织的历史已经变得越来越复杂了。
A computer reconstruction ( see diagram ) suggests this upper jaw meshes well with the second of dr leakey 's discoveries , a lower jaw ( kmn-er 60000 ) .
Previous studies of primates had been confined to captive animals but leakey believed , presciently , that much more could be learned by studying them in the wild .