LOUISE LEAKEY –Paleontologist &  National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence

Sunday, March 3, 2013 at 8:00 pm in Pasadena
Monday, March 4, 2013 at 8:00 pm in Thousand Oaks
Tuesday, March 5, 2013 at 8:00 pm in Redondo Beach

Dr. Louise Leakey is the youngest member of the famous Leakey family of fossil hunters in East Africa. With an adventurous spirit and unwavering focus on the advancement and understanding of human origins, she has spent much of her life leading expeditions into the remote badlands of northern Kenya. From these groundbreaking forays, she and her team have yielded some of our deepest insights into what it is that makes us human. Her team, The Koobi Fora Research Project, has made discoveries that have shaped modern thinking on the journey of humanity over the past 4 million years.