Anthrapology/Palentology
Mary Leakey
Mary Leakey was born on February 6, 1913, in London, England. Mary Douglas Leakey was a paleoanthropologist who is best known for making several prominent archaeological and anthropological discoveries throughout the latter half of the 20th century.
Mary Leakey made her first big discovery in 1948: She found a partial skull fossil of Proconsul africanus, an ancestor of apes and humans that later evolved into the two distinct species.
Jane Goodall
Goodall used her newfound acceptance to establish what she termed the "banana club," a daily systematic feeding method she used to gain trust and to obtain a more thorough understanding of everyday chimpanzee behavior. Using this method, she became closely acquainted with more than half of the reserve's 100 or more chimpanzees. She imitated their behaviors, spent time in the trees, and ate their foods.
Raymond Dart
In the late 1930s and early 1940s Broom found many more australopithecine fossils in South Africa, and in the late 1940s Dart's position was vindicated when many scientists finally accepted that australopithecines were hominids. In the mid-1940s, Dart once again tried looking for fossils, at the site of Makapansgat.