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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 22 quotes by Richard Leakey Richard Erskine Frere Leakey (born 19 December 1944) is a Kenyan politician, paleoanthropologist and conservationist. He is second of the three sons of the archaeologists Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey, and is the younger half-brother of Colin Leakey. Read full biography of Richard Leakey → 1 2 Ctrl → For fossils to thrive, certain favorable circumstances are required. First of all, of course, remnants of life have to be there. These then need to... → 0 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... → 0 Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well. 0 Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance. 0 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.... → 0 We hope to find more pieces of the puzzle which will shed light on the connection between this upright, walking ape, our early ancestor, and modern... → 0 A number of scientists with greatly different backgrounds can come up with completely different assessments. The discussions or controversies are... → 0 Earlier, 100,000 elephants lived in Kenya and we didn't have any noteworthy problem with it. The problem that we have is not that there are now... → 0 It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya, which is populated chiefly by migrant nomads. 0 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. 0 The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels. 0 Scientific innovations continually provide us with new means of analyzing the finds. 0 To investigate the history of man's development, the most important finds are, of course, hominid fossils. 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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