Editing Richard Leakey (section)

===Teenage entrepreneur===
Leakey chose to support himself, borrowed £500 from his parents for a [[Land Rover]] and went into the trapping and skeleton supply business with [[Kamoya Kimeu]].<ref name="finders">{{cite web |title=Fossil Finders: Kamoya Kimeu |url=https://leakeyfoundation.org/fossil-finders-kamoya-kimeu/ |website=The Leakey Foundation |access-date=3 January 2022 |date=13 April 2018}}</ref> Already a skilled horseman, outdoorsman, Land Rover mechanic, amateur archaeologist, and expedition leader,<ref name="wapo">{{cite news |last1=Hendrickson |first1=Paul |title=Drive, Luck and the Leakey Genes |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1978/10/03/drive-luck-and-the-leakey-genes/8c9410c9-b72b-45a4-bcc5-19c067790196/ |newspaper=Washington Post |access-date=3 January 2022 |date=3 October 1978}}</ref> he learned to identify bones, skills which all pointed to a path he did not yet wish to take, simply because his father was on it.<ref>Richard E. Leakey in ''The Making of Mankind'' (1981), Chapter 1, p. 1, says he wished to be "free" of his parents' world, a sentiment both Louis and Mary must have understood very well, even though they opposed his freedom.</ref>

The bone business turned into a safari business in 1961.<ref>{{cite web |title=Portrait: Richard Leakey |url=https://www.theguardian.com/g2/story/0,3604,565776,00.html |website=The Guardian |access-date=3 January 2022 |date=9 October 2001}}</ref> In 1962, he obtained a private pilot licence and took tours to the [[Olduvai Gorge]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Lewin |first1=Roger |title=The Old Man of Olduvai Gorge |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-old-man-of-olduvai-gorge-69246530/ |journal=Smithsonian |access-date=3 January 2022 |language=en |date=October 2002|volume=33 |issue=7 |pages=82–88 |pmid=17211962 }}</ref> It was from a casual aerial survey that he noted the potential of [[Lake Natron]]'s shores for palaeontology. He went looking for fossils in a Land Rover, but could find none, until his parents assigned [[Glynn Isaac]] to go with him.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Wood |first1=Bernard |title=A Very Special Archaeologist |url=https://cashp.columbian.gwu.edu/very-special-archaeologist |website=Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology |publisher=The George Washington University |access-date=3 January 2022 |date=5 October 2015}}</ref> Louis was so impressed with their finds that he gave them [[National Geographic Society|National Geographic]] money for a month's expedition.<ref>Morell, 1995, Chapter 18, "Richard Makes his Move." Besides Leakey and Glynn, the roster included Barbara Isaac, [[Philip Leakey]], [[Hugo van Lawick]] and six of Mary's African assistants.</ref> They explored in the vicinity of Peninj near the lake, where Leakey was in charge of the administrative details. Bored, he returned to Nairobi temporarily, but at that moment, Kamoya Kimeu discovered a fossil of ''[[Australopithecus boisei]]''.<ref name="finders"/> A second expedition left Leakey feeling that he was being excluded from the most significant part of the operation, the scientific analysis.<ref name="finders"/>