April 4, 1959 (, Jihai February 27), the British archaeologist niche found fossils of East Africa ".

famous British anthropologist and archaeologist Dr. Louis Leakey, born August 7, 1903, born in a missionary family. The youth spent in the middle of the Kikuyu people of Kenya. Studied at the University of Cambridge. 1924 archaeological research in East Africa. He has taught at a number of universities in Britain, the United States. April 4, 1959, he and his wife, [1 $ dj��.c��m] a human fossils unearthed in Tanzania, this piece of the estimated 175-million-year-old fossil is named "East Africa" ​​(now known as & ldquo ; the Australopithecus "). Niche, this shows that the human origin of time than in the past identified earlier. Died on October 1, 1972.