Editing Louis Leakey (section)

==Books==
Leakey's books are listed below.<ref>Most of them have many publishers in many editions.</ref> The gaps between books are filled by too many articles to list. It was Louis who began the Leakey tradition of publishing in ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]''.
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!'''First publication date'''
!'''Title'''
!'''Notes'''
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|1931
|''The Stone Age Culture of Kenya Colony''
|Written in 1929. Illustrated by Frida Leakey.
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|1934
|''Adam's Ancestors: The Evolution of Man and His Culture''
|Multiple editions with rewrites, the 4th in 1955. Illustrated by Mary Leakey. Book reviews:<ref>[https://www.jstor.org/stable/661984 "Prehistory and Physical Anthropology"], ''American Anthropologist''.</ref>
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|1935
|''The Stone Age races of Kenya''
|Proposes Homo kanamensis.
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|1936
|''Kenya: Contrasts and Problems''
|Written in 1935.
|-
|1936
|''Stone Age Africa: an Outline of Prehistory in Africa''
|Ten chapters consisting of the ten Munro Lectures delivered in 1936 by Louis to [[Edinburgh University]] and intended by him as a textbook. Illustrated by Mary Leakey.
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|1937
|''White African: an Early Autobiography''
|Louis described it as a "pot-boiler" written in 1936 for Hodder & Stoughton.
|-
|1951
|''The Miocene Hominoidea of East Africa''
|With [[Wilfrid Le Gros Clark]]. Volume I of the series ''Fossil Mammals of Africa'' published by the [[Natural History Museum, London|Natural History Museum]] in London.
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|1951
|''Olduvai Gorge: A Report on the Evolution of the Hand-Axe Culture in Beds I–IV''
|Started in 1935. Names the [[Olduwan]] Culture.
|-
|1952
|''Mau Mau and the Kikuyu''
|Online at<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=55014383|title=Mau Mau and the Kikuyu – 1952, Page iii by L. S. B. Leakey.|access-date=|archive-date=22 August 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090822124716/http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=55014383|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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|1953
|''Animals in Africa''
|Photographs by [[Ylla]].
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|1954
|''Defeating Mau Mau''
|With Peter Schmidt. Online at<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5658080|title=Defeating Mau Mau – 1954, Page iii by L. S. B. Leakey|access-date=|archive-date=18 August 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090818203919/http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5658080|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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|1965
|''Olduvai Gorge: A Preliminary Report on the Geology and Fauna, 1951–61''
|Volume 1.<ref>The second volume, ''Olduvai Gorge: the Cranium and Maxillary Dentition of Australopithecus (Zinjanthropus) boisei'', was written by Phillip Tobias. The third volume was written by Mary Leakey.</ref>
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|1969
|''Unveiling Man's Origins''
|With Vanne Morris Goodall.
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|1969
|''Animals of East Africa: The Wild realm''
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|1970
|''Olduvai Gorge, 1965–1967''
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|1974
|''By the Evidence: Memoirs, 1932–1951''
|Written in 1972 and published posthumously. Louis finished writing on the day before his death.
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|1977
|''The Southern Kikuyu before 1903''
|Published posthumously. The manuscript remained in Louis' safe for decades for lack of a publisher. It was 3 volumes. He refused to follow editorial advice and shorten it.
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