We are concerned that, in a few years ti... by Richard Leakey

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We are concerned that, in a few years time, this place of discovery, with its wealth of human fossils, the like of which can be found nowhere else in the world, could be completely destroyed.

- Richard Leakey

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Science Work Life

Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with. It is a life-long task.

- 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

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

Control

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

- Richard Leakey

Age Years People

Elephants can live to an age of up to 70 or 80 years and they have a good memory. It could be they come across an area that is experiencing a drought. Then they continue on their path and run into people.

- Richard Leakey

African

Whether or not all this came to pass in an East African ditch, I wouldn't like to say. Perhaps it happened in North Africa or further west, but Africa was definitely the place.

- Richard Leakey

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