Today , together with her mother , Meave Leakey , she leads the Koobi Fora research project . This has produced some of the most notable hominid fossil discoveries of the past two decades , the most recent being Kenyanthropus platyops . Today , together with her mother , Meave Leakey , she leads the Koobi Fora research project , which has been the main program behind some of the most notable hominid fossil discoveries of the past two decades , the most recent being Kenyanthropus platyops .