Sadly, I am not able to take part in the... by Richard Leakey

Author Politician Years Environmentalist Conservationist

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

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Investment

The land is not in the least bit fertile and yet the cattle herds grow larger and larger. A cow represents capital investment here.

- Richard Leakey

Forget

One should not forget that there are very few surviving items from this period, often just single, small bones, a tooth, a sliver of the skull. Categorizing these pieces can be very difficult.

- Richard Leakey

History Man

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

- Richard Leakey

Anarchy

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

- Richard Leakey

History

I would hazard a guess that we have found fossilized human remains of at least a thousand different specimens in South and East Africa, more or less complete at that. I think this is where the prelude to human history was primarily played out.

- 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

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