One person, the paleontologist Louis Leakey, who had recruited her to the task up in Nairobi, believed she might succeed.

对此持怀疑论者都在盼着她出丑，不过也有一位名叫路易斯·李基的古生物学家看好珍，因为他曾招募珍参加过内罗毕的考古工作。