"Earlier, 100,000 elephants lived in Kenya and we……" — Richard Leakey

"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 now more elephants."

— Richard Leakey

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My father used to say that, through culture, humans effectively domesticated themselves.
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Climate change: We have never faced a more critical time on our planet
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It occurred to me that if I did not handle the crash correctly, there would be no survivors.
For fossils to thrive, certain favorable circumstances are required. First of all, of course, remnants of life have to be…
Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to…
The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels.
Sadly, I am not able to take part in the fieldwork myself so much anymore, as both of my legs…
Whether or not all this came to pass in an East African ditch, I wouldn't like to say. Perhaps it…

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