Best Richard Leakey Quotes
- To investigate the history of man's development, the most important finds are, of course, hominid fossils. Course
- The problem is that during the 1980s, a decade of heavy poaching, the elephants retreated to safer areas. And now people have moved into the… Areas
- Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance. Along
- Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well. Begin
- It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya, which is populated chiefly by migrant nomads. Chiefly
- To have arrived on this earth as a product of a biological accident, only to depart through human arrogance, would be the ultimate irony. Accident
- For three million years we were hunter-gatherers, and it was through the evolutionary pressures of that way of life that a brain so adaptable and… Adaptable
- To me it's a question of being able to look backward and give the present a root... To give meaning to where we are today,… Able
- We are concerned that, in a few years time, this place of discovery, with its wealth of human fossils, the like of which can be… Completely
- The land is not in the least bit fertile and yet the cattle herds grow larger and larger. A cow represents capital investment here. Bit
- We think that groups of between 30 and 40 early men would have settled in an area measuring a hundred square kilometers. Area
- One should not forget that there are very few surviving items from this period, often just single, small bones, a tooth, a sliver of the… Bones
- I, too, am convinced that our ancestors came from Africa. Africa
- I would hazard a guess that we have found fossilized human remains of at least a thousand different specimens in South and East Africa, more… Africa
- Elephants can live to an age of up to 70 or 80 years and they have a good memory. It could be they come across… Across
- A number of scientists with greatly different backgrounds can come up with completely different assessments. The discussions or controversies are endless. Once a year, we… Assessments
- Earlier, 100,000 elephants lived in Kenya and we didn't have any noteworthy problem with it. The problem that we have is not that there are… Any
- I can't think of any other region in the world which is such a vast source of fossils. Any