The most captivating topic of the year was about the adventurous parenting style of Mary Leakey, who passed on her love of archaeology and anthropology to her children.
“Mother gave us every freedom to learn by experience as early as I can remember,” says Leakey’s youngest son, Philip, 64, who now lives in Kenya and responded to questions for the blog via e-mail.
Today, the mother of paleoanthropology’s sons still tread in her footsteps.
Philip Leakey, his wife, and others run The Leakey Collection, which is taking her work to the next level by helping moms in Kenya and the Maasai tribe to make a sustainable living by selling their hand-crafts online.
