Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun richard_leakey

1 sense of richard leakey

Sense 1
Leakey, Richard Leakey, Richard Erskine Leakey -- (English paleontologist (son of Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey) who continued the work of his parents; he was appointed director of a wildlife preserve in Kenya but resigned under political pressure (born in 1944))
       INSTANCE OF=> paleontologist, palaeontologist, fossilist -- (a specialist in paleontology)
       INSTANCE OF=> anthropologist -- (a social scientist who specializes in anthropology)