"It seems inconceivable that a species of human……" — Richard Leakey
"It seems inconceivable that a species of human could possess fully modern language and not be fully modern in all other ways, too. For this reason, the evolution of language is widely judged to be the culminating event in the emergence of humanity as we know it today."
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Richard Leakey
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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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