Women and

Diversity in
Science
Mary  Leakey  was  born  in  London  and,  a1er  being  
kicked  out  of  school  at  a  convent,  went  on  to  study   Mary Leakey
(Born February 6, 1913 –
anthropology  and  paleontology  at  University  College  
Died December 9, 1996)
London.  She  and  her  husband  discovered  a  skull  in  
Africa  that  could  be  one  of  the  first  nearly  complete  
human  ancestor  skulls.  This  fossil,  and  many  others  
Leakey  discovered  in  her  solo  work,  work  with  her  
husband,  and  then  later  work  with  her  son  Richard  
Leakey,  has  helped  fill  in  the  fossil  record  with  more  
informaDon  about  human  evoluDon.  
Jane Goodall
(Born  April  3,  1934)  
Jane  Goodall  was  born  in  London  and  is  
best  known  for  her  work  with  
chimpanzees.  Studying  the  familial  
interacDons  and  behaviors  of  
chimpanzees,  Goodall  collaborated  with  
Louis  and  Mary  Leakey  while  studying  in  
Africa.  Her  work  with  the  primates,  along  
with  the  fossils  the  Leakeys  discovered,  
helped  piece  together  how  
early  hominids  may  have  lived.  With  no  
formal  training,  Goodall  started  out  as  a  
secretary  for  the  Leakeys.  
–  Maydianne  Andrade  has  the  enviable  job  of  studying   Maydianne
cannibalisDc  spiders.  She  was  born  in  Kingston,  Jamaica,  
Andrade
and  immigrated  with  her  parents  to  Vancouver,  Canada,   Evolutionary Biologist
when  she  was  3  years  old.  She  uses  her  spiders  as   University of Toronto,
models  for  understanding  the  evoluDon  of  maDng   Scarborough Campus
behavior.  
–  Andrade  was  picked  to  be  one  of  Popular  Science  magazine’s  2005  
Brilliant  10.  She  has  also  been  the  recipient  of  the  Outstanding  New  
InvesDgator  Award  (Animal  Behavior  Society),  the  Pitelka  Award  for  
Excellence  in  Research  (InternaDonal  Society  for  Behavioral  
Ecology),  and  a  Premier’s  Research  Excellence  Award  (Government  
on  Ontario).