{"id":12210,"date":"2022-05-05T01:41:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T01:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deliry.com\/?p=12210"},"modified":"2026-05-09T01:48:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T01:48:06","slug":"richard-leakey-1944-2022-dun-homme-a-un-autre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deliry.com\/?p=12210","title":{"rendered":"Richard Leakey (1944-2022), d\u2019un Homme \u00e0 un autre"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/deliry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Leakey1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"679\" src=\"https:\/\/deliry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Leakey1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12213\" style=\"width:640px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/deliry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Leakey1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/deliry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Leakey1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/deliry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Leakey1-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/deliry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Leakey1-700x465.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">\u00a0Richard Leakey \u00e0 Amsterdam au Tropenmuseum \u2013 2 juillet 1986<br><sup>\u00a9\u00a9 0 \u2013 photo de Rob Bogaert (ANEFO)<\/sup><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Richard Erskine Leakey est n\u00e9 le 19 d\u00e9cembre 1944 \u00e0 Nairobi au Kenya et mort \u00e2g\u00e9 de 77 ans, le 2 janvier 2022 pr\u00e8s de Nairobi. Il s\u2019agit d\u2019un pal\u00e9oanthropologue de renomm\u00e9e mondiale. Il d\u00fb abandonner ses \u00e9tudes et malgr\u00e9 un s\u00e9jour en Angleterre afin de reprendre des \u00e9tudes universitaires, il fut de retour en Afrique six mois plus tard et ne fut jamais dipl\u00f4m\u00e9. Ceci ne l\u2019a pas emp\u00each\u00e9 d\u2019\u00eatre professeur d\u2019anthropologie d\u00e8s 2002 \u00e0 l\u2019Universit\u00e9 de Stony Brook \u00e0 New York. Il est de retour au Kenya d\u00e8s 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"404\" src=\"https:\/\/deliry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Orihuma.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/deliry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Orihuma.jpg 250w, https:\/\/deliry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Orihuma-186x300.jpg 186w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Ses parents, sa femme et sa fille sont d\u2019\u00e9minents pal\u00e9oanthropologues. Richard m\u00e8ne des fouilles pal\u00e9ontologiques en Afrique et avec son \u00e9quipe dans les ann\u00e9es 1960 et 1970 il d\u00e9couvre de nombreux restes fossiles autour du Lac Turkana au Kenya\u00a0:\u00a0<em>Paranthropus boisei,\u00a0Homo rudolfensis,\u00a0Homo ergaster<\/em>. En 1984, la d\u00e9couverte du gar\u00e7on de Turkana correspond \u00e0 ce jour, au squelette le plus complet d\u2019<em>Homo ergaster<\/em>\u00a0jamais trouv\u00e9. Richard Leakey a jou\u00e9 un r\u00f4le fondamentale dans la compr\u00e9hension des origines de l\u2019Humanit\u00e9 et contribu\u00e9 par ailleurs \u00e0 muscler la lutte contre les braconniers d\u2019\u00e9l\u00e9phants. On lui doit une part notable de l\u2019histoire de la lign\u00e9e humaine et tr\u00e8s certainement le sauvetage des \u00e9l\u00e9phants, notamment au Kenya o\u00f9 les populations de cet animal sont nettement en hausse (+12% entre 2014 et 2021).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Conform\u00e9ment \u00e0 ses v\u0153ux, Richard Leakey a \u00e9t\u00e9\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/citizenwitness.co.ke\/index.php\/2022\/01\/03\/richard-leakey-laid-to-rest-on-a-hill-along-rift-valley\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">enterr\u00e9 sur une colline le long de la vall\u00e9e du Rift<\/a> \u279a.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"291\" height=\"475\" src=\"https:\/\/deliry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/6est.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/deliry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/6est.jpg 291w, https:\/\/deliry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/6est-184x300.jpg 184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u2192 <a href=\"https:\/\/achievement.org\/achiever\/richard-leakey\/\">El\u00e9ments de Biographie (American Academy of Achievement)<\/a> \u279a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Erskine Leakey est n\u00e9 le 19 d\u00e9cembre 1944 \u00e0 Nairobi au Kenya et mort \u00e2g\u00e9 de 77 ans, le 2 janvier 2022 pr\u00e8s de &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maintenance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deliry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deliry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deliry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deliry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deliry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12210"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deliry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12217,"href":"https:\/\/deliry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12210\/revisions\/12217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deliry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deliry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deliry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deliry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}