Louise Leakey, the fabled Kenyan paleontologist built a precise 3D model of a fossilized skull.
The intertwining history of the human family and the Leakey family has just become even more complicated.
The trip to Camp Leakey takes two days on one of these boats.
On the way to Camp Leakey, two stops are made at feeding sites for rehabilitated and wild orangutans at Pondok Tanggui and Tanjung Harapan.
Mr Leakey's last act as head of the Kenya Wildlife Service in 1998 was to prevent the government clearing swathes of Mount Kenya's forests.
Similarly, many shows on the archaeology and evolution of the homo genus, and many other animals and plants, feature female experts, such as Maeve Leakey.
But Leakey-watchers had expected him to engineer a more glorious exit.
Dr Leakey said saving the apes was not about money alone.
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As your klotok arrives at the long jetty at Camp Leakey, you will usually see several of the site's more famous characters lurking at the docking station.
Most of the guides have been working in the forest for years and have insider information into each of the individual orangutans around the Camp Leakey site.
However interesting all these features are, the best part of Camp Leakey is the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to sit in a forest and share space with these semi-wild orangutans.
Initially set up to document orangutans in the wild, Camp Leakey served as a rehabilitation site for ex-captive orangutans, as the forests they were surrounded by started to dwindle.
The head of the Kenyan civil service, Richard Leakey, said the report showed that Kenya was serious about tackling graft, but he cautioned that it dealt with allegations only.
The new fossils found by Dr Leakey and her team (which includes a third Leakey generation in the form of her daughter, Louise) may, however, help clear up what is going on.
In July he pleased donors by appointing Richard Leakey, a former palaeontologist and head of Kenya's wildlife service, as head of the civil service, with promises of an anti-corruption shake-up in the ministries.
Eventually, Birute Galdikas was recognised as the foremost authority on these auburn-coloured primates, and Camp Leakey became inundated with orangutan orphans, illegally kept as pets before the owners found them too difficult to handle.
But the funeral so impressed Mr Leakey that when his own mother, Mary Leakey, a renowned palaeontologist, died 12 years later, Mr Leakey and his two brothers cremated her themselves in a similar fashion.
Since Richard Leakey, a former opposition politician who was appointed head of the civil service a year ago, has made some headway, it now seems likely that the donors will re-open the aid taps later this year.
When you turn into the Sekonyer River, closer towards Camp Leakey, the river becomes narrow and you will get a great view of the male monkey's enormous snout - which is so big they have to move them out of the way to eat.
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