Louise Leakey Quotes
- 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.
- Who are we? That is the big question. And essentially we are just an upright, walking, big brained, super intelligent ape.
- If you want to become a fossil, you need to die somewhere where your bones will be rapidly buried. You then hope that the Earth…
- If you want to become a fossil, you actually need to die somewhere where your bones will be rapidly buried. You then hope that the…
- With the discovery of Zinjanthropus at Olduvai Gorge in 1959, my grandmother Mary Leakey pioneered the research in East Africa with my grandfather Louis. Many…
- What the fossil record does do is to force us to contemplate our place on the planet. We are but one species of several hominids…
- My father so appropriately put it that we are certainly the only animal that makes conscious choices that are bad for our survival as a…