It’s probably impossible to write about the history of fossil hominin discoveries in Africa and not discuss, or at least mention, the Leakeys… While Louis Leakey (1903-1972) is the most famous, if not notorious, member of this family, it’s the highly accomplished Mary (1913-1996), his wife, that we’ll be looking at here. In 1984, when she was in her early 70s, Mary penned Disclosing the Past: An Autobiography (Leakey 1984). As part of my slow-burn look at volumes devoted to palaeoanthropology,..