Editing Richard Leakey (section)

===Fractured skull===
In 1956, aged eleven, Leakey fell from his horse, fracturing his skull and nearly dying as a result.<ref name="natgeo-obit">{{cite web |last1=Stone |first1=Andrea |title=Richard Leakey, trailblazing conservationist and fossil hunter, dies at 77 |url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/richard-leakey-trailblazing-conservationist-and-fossil-hunter-dies-at-77 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220102220913/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/richard-leakey-trailblazing-conservationist-and-fossil-hunter-dies-at-77 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2 January 2022 |website=National Geographic |access-date=3 January 2022 |language=en |date=2 January 2022}}</ref> Incidentally, it was this incident that saved his parents' marriage.<ref name="natgeo-obit" /> Louis was seriously considering leaving Mary for his secretary, Rosalie Osborn. As the battle with Mary raged in the household, Leakey begged his father from his sickbed not to leave. That was the deciding factor. Louis broke up with Rosalie and the family lived in happy harmony for a few years more.<ref name="morell">Morell, Virginia (1995). Chapter 17, "Chimpanzees and Other Loves", in ''Ancestral Passions: The Leakey Family and the Quest for Humankind's Beginnings''. {{ISBN|978-0684824703}}.</ref>