Celebrating 50 Years of Human Origins Research: The 1973 Louis Leakey Memorial Symposium @TheLeakeyFoundation
Celebrating 50 Years of Human Origins Research: The 1973 Louis Leakey Memorial Symposium  @TheLeakeyFoundation
Uploaded February 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Join The Leakey Foundation's celebration of the history of human origins! We're releasing archival lectures originally recorded in 1973 by iconic figures including Mary Leakey, Jane Goodall, Raymond Dart, Dian Fossey, F. Clark Howell, and more!

In this video, paleoanthropologist Zeray Alemseged shares how each historic lecture will be updated with introductions by today's top researchers, highlighting their significance and sharing the latest knowledge.

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The historic footage is from the 1973 Louis Leakey Memorial Symposium held by The Leakey Foundation in collaboration with the California Academy of Sciences on December 2-3, 1973.
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