Whether or not all this came to pass in... by Richard Leakey

Author Politician African Environmentalist Conservationist

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

Other quotes by Richard Leakey

Years Time World

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

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

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

Anarchy

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

- Richard Leakey

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

Being

The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels.

- Richard Leakey

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