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I think when you work on fossils, and you realize that a species is there, and it's abundant for quite a long period of time, and then at some... →
If you want to become a fossil, you need to die somewhere where your bones will be rapidly buried. You then hope that the Earth moves in such a way... →
Every species becomes extinct; at some point, we will go extinct. The question is, as Homo sapiens, are we going to be able to adapt to the change... →
It's important to remember that we evolved. Now, I know that's a dirty word for some people, but we evolved from common ancestors with the... →
What the fossil record does do is to force us to contemplate our place on the planet. We are but one species of several hominids that inhabited... →
What is it that really makes us, us? It's our collective intelligence. It's our ability to write things down, our language and our... →
My father so appropriately put it that we are certainly the only animal that makes conscious choices that are bad for our survival as a species.
In the rush of today's world, and with more than half of us now living in cities, the majority of people are less and less connected with the... →
When we find a fossil, we mark it. Today, we've got great technology: we have GPS. We mark it with a GPS fix, and we also take a digital... →
With the discovery of Zinjanthropus at Olduvai Gorge in 1959, my grandmother Mary Leakey pioneered the research in East Africa with my grandfather... →
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