# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Trailblazing Talks with Louise Leakey, Paleoanthropologist  Digging for Humanity’s Origins
- **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 27 Jan, 2026 at 07:30 pm
- **Event Description**: This show explores the burning question that consumes African-born Louise Leakey — as it consumed her famed parents Meave and Richard Leakey, and grandparents Louis and Mary Leakey before her — “How is it that Homo Sapiens are the only surviving member of the human family out of all of the upright ape species that have called Earth home over the past 8 million years?” Was it due to cross breeding with other human species?  Was it due to the size of our brains? These are the questions Dr. Leakey seeks to answer. The Turkana Basin region of East Africa is a source of unprecedented fossil and archaeological evidence for all major stages of human development. This is the place where our story is written. Every human being alive today shares DNA inherited from a common ancestral population currently believed to have lived within a few hundred miles of the Turkana Basin, about 60-70,000 years ago. Discoveries over the last few decades continue to reshape our understanding of the human family tree.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/kansas-city/trailblazing-talks-with-louise-leakey-paleoanthropologist-digging-for-humanity’s-origins/200029093961938
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- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 40

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://tickets.kauffmancenter.org/leakey?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=kansas+city-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Kansas City
- **state**: KS
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 1601 Broadway Blvd, Kansas City, MO, United States, Missouri 64108
- **lat**: 39.0938
- **long**: -94.58733
- **full address**: 1601 Broadway Blvd, Kansas City, MO, United States, Missouri 64108

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- **organizer**: Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts (https://allevents.in/org/kauffman-center-for-the-performing-arts/24991866)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Tue, 27 Jan, 2026 at 07:30 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 1601 Broadway Blvd, Kansas City, MO, United States, Missouri 64108
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Trailblazing Talks with Louise Leakey, Paleoanthropologist  Digging for Humanity’s Origins ?
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