"Humans become human through intense learning not just……" — Richard Leakey
"Humans become human through intense learning not just of survival skills but of customs and social mores, kinship and social laws-that is, culture."
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43 Quotes by Richard Leakey
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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…
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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…
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In the area of species protection, we should concern ourselves with what is right as opposed to what might be…
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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…
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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…
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Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to…
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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…
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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…
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People have become educated, but have not become human.
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Something nonhuman doesn’t become human by getting older and bigger; whatever is human is human from the beginning.
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