A number of scientists with greatly diff... by Richard Leakey | We Heart Quotes

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A number of scientists with greatly different backgrounds can come up with completely different assessments. The discussions or controversies are endless. Once a year, we try to bring the most important discoverers together to exchange their experiences and knowledge.

- Richard Leakey

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World

I can't think of any other region in the world which is such a vast source of fossils.

- Richard Leakey

Control

It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya, which is populated chiefly by migrant nomads.

- Richard Leakey

Anarchy

Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance.

- Richard Leakey

Years

Sadly, I am not able to take part in the fieldwork myself so much anymore, as both of my legs were amputated following an airplane crash twelve years ago.

- Richard Leakey

Men

We think that groups of between 30 and 40 early men would have settled in an area measuring a hundred square kilometers.

- Richard Leakey

History Man

To investigate the history of man's development, the most important finds are, of course, hominid fossils.

- Richard Leakey

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