If you want to become a fossil, you need to die somewhere where your bones will be rapidly buried. You then hope… — Louise Leakey Copy Share Image
When we find a fossil, we mark it. Today, we've got great technology: we have GPS. We mark it with a GPS… — Louise Leakey Copy Share Image
If you want to become a fossil, you actually need to die somewhere where your bones will be rapidly buried. You then… — Louise Leakey Copy Share Image
Every species becomes extinct; at some point, we will go extinct. The question is, as Homo sapiens, are we going to be… — Louise Leakey Copy Share Image
My father so appropriately put it that we are certainly the only animal that makes conscious choices that are bad for our survival as… — Louise Leakey Copy Share Image
Who are we? That is the big question. And essentially we are just an upright, walking, big brained, super intelligent ape. — Louise Leakey Copy Share Image
I think when you work on fossils, and you realize that a species is there, and it's abundant for quite a long period of… — Louise Leakey Copy Share Image
It's important to remember that we evolved. Now, I know that's a dirty word for some people, but we evolved from common ancestors with… — Louise Leakey Copy Share Image
If you want to become a fossil, you need to die somewhere where your bones will be rapidly buried. You then hope that the… — Louise Leakey Copy Share Image
When we find a fossil, we mark it. Today, we've got great technology: we have GPS. We mark it with a GPS fix, and… — Louise Leakey Copy Share Image
Its important to remember that we evolved. Now, I know thats a dirty word for some people, but we evolved from common ancestors with… — Louise Leakey Copy Share Image
If you want to become a fossil, you actually need to die somewhere where your bones will be rapidly buried. You then hope that… — Louise Leakey Copy Share Image
In the rush of today's world, and with more than half of us now living in cities, the majority of people are less and… — Louise Leakey Copy Share Image
What the fossil record does do is to force us to contemplate our place on the planet. We are but one species of several… — Louise Leakey Copy Share Image
What is it that really makes us, us? It's our collective intelligence. It's our ability to write things down, our language and our consciousness. — Louise Leakey Copy Share Image
With the discovery of Zinjanthropus at Olduvai Gorge in 1959, my grandmother Mary Leakey pioneered the research in East Africa with my grandfather Louis.… — Louise Leakey Copy Share Image
