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Paleontologist: Dr. Meave Leakey
Paleontology is a family business for Meave Leakey. Meave, her husband, Richard, and her daughter Louise are all paleontologists. Meave and Louise are also National Geographic Explorers-in-Residence.
Meave's work keeps her busy on two continents.
She is a paleontologist and research professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and is the director of Plio-Pleistocene research for the Turkana Basin Institute in Nariobi, Kenya.
EARLY WORK
Growing up in Kent County, England, Meave fell in love with the natural world at an early age.
"I always had an interest in the sea and an interest in marine organisms and things like that," she says.
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"My father was also very interested, and he loved photography, so he took lots of photographs of wildlife and natural things. It's something I grew up with at home but not at school."
In college, Meave decided to pursue her interest in marine life.
"I went to the