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Monday, October 1, 2012

Noted Palentologist to speak at Augustana College on Oct. 4th

Augustana College will be hosting a free public lecture by noted paleoanthropologist Dr. Louise Leakey from the Koobi Fora Research Project in Kenya, Africa. Louise is the granddaughter of famous paleoanthropologists Louis and Mary Leakey and the daughter of paleoanthropoloigsts Richard and Meave Leakey. She will be giving a lecture titled "A Human Journey: What Fossils Tell Us." The lecture will be held on Thursday, October 4th from 7:30-8:30pm. For more information, please follow the links:

http://www.augustana.edu/x11824.xml?eventid=8646

http://www.roycecarlton.com/speaker/profile/Louise-Leakey.html