Apes Quote by Louise Leakey

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Every species becomes extinct; at some point, we will go extinct. The question is, as Homo sapiens, are we going to be able to…

— Louise Leakey