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Meave's research interests, focus on Cenozoic mammalian evolution, with emphasis on primate and human evolution. Her research activities are both field and lab based. The annual interdisciplinary expeditions of the Koobi Fora Research Project (KFRP), to the Turkana Basin, northern Kenya include geologists, paleontologists, geophysicists, geochemists and paleobotanists. These expeditions survey the badlands for fossil evidence of early human ancestors and the fauna that lived alongside these ancestors. The fossils and the geological context in which they are found provide the means to reconstruct past faunas, habitats and climates. In particular the analyses of stable carbon isotopes have shed considerable light on the paleoenvironments in which our ancestors lived, climate changes through time, and the dietary preferences of different vertebrates species. Over the past 45 years, the KFRP has discovered numerous new vertebrate species. Of particular importance are the spectacular fossil hominin discoveries, which have enhanced the understanding of our own evolutionary past prior to the emergence of Homo sapiens. Together with colleagues, Meave has described new species of early apes, monkeys and human ancestors, including Australopithecus anamensis, the earliest known australopithecine, and Kenyanthropus platyops, which provides evidence of diversity in the human fossil record 3.5 million years ago.
Meave's research interests, focus on Cenozoic mammalian evolution, with emphasis on primate and human evolution. Her research activities are both field and lab based. The annual interdisciplinary expeditions of the Koobi Fora Research Project (KFRP), to the Turkana Basin, northern Kenya include geologists, paleontologists, geophysicists, geochemists and paleobotanists. These expeditions survey the badlands for fossil evidence of early human ancestors and the fauna that lived alongside these ancestors. The fossils and the geological context in which they are found provide the means to reconstruct past faunas, habitats and climates. In particular the analyses of stable carbon isotopes have shed considerable light on the paleoenvironments in which our ancestors lived, climate changes through time, and the dietary preferences of different vertebrates species. Over the past 45 years, the KFRP has discovered numerous new vertebrate species. Of particular importance are the spectacular fossil hominin discoveries, which have enhanced the understanding of our own evolutionary past prior to the emergence of Homo sapiens. Together with colleagues, Meave has described new species of early apes, monkeys and human ancestors, including Australopithecus anamensis, the earliest known australopithecine, and Kenyanthropus platyops, which provides evidence of diversity in the human fossil record 3.5 million years ago.
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JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETYno. 4 (2023)
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Cambridge University Press eBookspp.311-331, (2022)
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William Sanders,Meave Leakey,Louise Leakey,Craig Feibel, Timothy Gichunge Ibui, Cyprian Nyete, Pauline Mbatha,Francis Brown
Palaeovertebratano. 2 (2021)
Journal of human evolution (2020): 102820-102820
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