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Louis S. B. Leakey

The English anthropologist Louis Leakey was known primarily for his discovery of Proconsul africanus, his interpretation of Zinjanthropus, his announcing the discovery of Homo habilis, and his great influence on primatology. Born in 1903 at Kabete Mission, Kenya, Leakey benefited from two distinct cultures: the English culture that was provided by his parents, Harry and

Louis Thurstone

Louis L. Thurstone, who spent most of his career at the University of Chicago before founding a major psycho-metric lab at the University of North Carolina, made significant contributions to psychometrics, statistics, and the study of human intelligence during his long career. Thurstone developed methods for scaling psychological measures, assessing attitudes, and test theory, among

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