{"id":129124,"date":"2022-01-03T07:37:58","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T07:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=129124"},"modified":"2022-01-03T07:38:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T07:38:00","slug":"fossil-hunter-richard-leakey-dies-at-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/fossil-hunter-richard-leakey-dies-at-77\/","title":{"rendered":"Fossil hunter Richard Leakey dies at 77"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: Consider the following statements:<\/strong><br>(i) Richard Leakey\u2019s groundbreaking discoveries helped prove that humankind evolved in Africa.<br>(ii) He was national of Kenya.<br><strong>Which of the above are correct?<\/strong><br>(a) i<br>(b) ii<br>(c) Both i and ii<br>(d) None<br><strong>Ans: c<br>Related Facts<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Richard Leakey, Kenyan conservationist who campaigned against ivory trade has died at age of 77.<\/li><li>He was also a fossil hunter who had found oldest near-complete human skeleton in 1984, dating from 1.5m years ago.<\/li><li>The near-complete Homo erectus skeleton nicknamed Turkana Boy, it dated from approximately 1.5m years ago was dug by him in Africa and paved the for better understanding of human evolution.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Kameshwar Shukla<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2022\/jan\/02\/fossil-hunter-richard-leakey-who-showed-humans-evolved-in-africa-dies-at-77\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2022\/jan\/02\/fossil-hunter-richard-leakey-who-showed-humans-evolved-in-africa-dies-at-77<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Consider the following statements:(i) Richard Leakey\u2019s groundbreaking discoveries helped prove that humankind evolved in Africa.(ii) He was national of Kenya.Which of the above are correct?(a) i(b) ii(c) Both i and ii(d) NoneAns: cRelated Facts Richard Leakey, Kenyan conservationist who campaigned against ivory trade has died at age of 77. He was also a fossil [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1127],"tags":[495],"class_list":["post-129124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pers","tag-current-affairs-famous-person"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129126,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129124\/revisions\/129126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}