Kenneth Weaver

Kenneth Franklin Weaver (November 29, 1915 – September 20, 2010) enjoyed a substantial 33-year career as a writer for the National Geographic Magazine. His prolific tenure with National Geographic produced articles encompassing a range of subjects until he retired as Senior Science Editor in 1985.

Career In 1952, Weaver was hired at The National Geographic in the legends department. "Legends" were, in fact, the captions that accompanied the innovative, often exotic photography that the Geographic pioneered at that time. Weaver's work was widely viewed, as the majority of Geographic subscribers primarily opened the magazine to peruse the pictures. Upon his retirement, he wrote his last piece for the Geographic's November 1985 issue, entitled "The Search for Our Ancestors: Stones, Bones, and Early Man." It was the magazine's cover story that month, with a three-dimensional hologram depicting an ancient fossilized skull of a five-year-old child, preserved for more than a million years in a South African cave.

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