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Richard Leakey has 43 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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My father used to say that, through culture, humans effectively domesticated themselves.
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Echoing the criticism made of his father's habilis skulls, he added that Lucy's skull was so incomplete that most of it was…
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It's the next annihilation of vast numbers of species. It is happening now, and we, the human race, are its cause
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In the area of species protection, we should concern ourselves with what is right as opposed to what might be easier, or…
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Climate change: We have never faced a more critical time on our planet
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It has taken biologists some 230 years to identify and describe three quarters of a million insects; if there are indeed at…
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It occurred to me that if I did not handle the crash correctly, there would be no survivors.
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For fossils to thrive, certain favorable circumstances are required. First of all, of course, remnants of life have to be there. These…
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Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with.…
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The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels.
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Sadly, I am not able to take part in the fieldwork myself so much anymore, as both of my legs were amputated…
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Whether or not all this came to pass in an East African ditch, I wouldn't like to say. Perhaps it happened in…
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Is there no room for art in the spoken language? What is the use of creating an unnatural language to the exclusion…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Spoken language clearly differentiates Homo sapiens from all other creatures. None but humankind produces a complex spoken language, a medium for communication…
— Richard Leakey
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I think we're still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder…
— Jane Goodall
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Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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The substance of the winds is too thin for human eyes, their written language is too difficult for human minds, and their…
— John Muir
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What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.
— Jane Goodall
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Scientists attach great importance to the human capacity for spoken language. But we also have a parallel track of nonverbal communication, which…
— Leonard Mlodinow
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It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that…
— Lafcadio Hearn
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