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Richard Leakey

Born: December 19, 1944

Nationality: Kenyan

Occupation: Environmentalist

Biography: Richard Erskine Frere Leakey is a politician, paleoanthropologist and conservationist. He is second of the three sons of the archaeologists Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey, and is the younger brother of Colin Leakey.

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Richard Leakey

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

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Richard Leakey

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

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“The problem is that during the 1980s, a decade of heavy poaching, the elephants retreated to safer areas. And now people have moved into the corridors once used by the elephants.”

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

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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.”

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“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 man.”

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“We think that groups of between 30 and 40 early men would have settled in an area measuring a hundred square kilometers.”

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“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.”

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“The language of art is powerful to those who understand it, and puzzling to those who do not. What we do know is that here was the modern human mind at work, spinning symbolism and abstraction in a way that only Homo sapiens is capable of doing.”

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“Ritual disposal of the dead speaks clearly of an awareness of death, and thus an awareness of self.”

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“Humans become human through intense learning not just of survival skills but of customs and social mores, kinship and social laws — that is, culture.”

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“Natural selection operates according to immediate circumstances and not toward a long-term goal. Homo sapiens did eventually evolve as a descendant of the first humans, but there was nothing inevitable about it.”

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“As every parent knows, children go through an adolescent growth spurt, during which they put on inches at an alarming rate. Humans are unique in this respect: most mammalian species, including apes, progress almost directly from infancy to adulthood.”

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“It seems inconceivable that a species of human could possess fully modern language and not be fully modern in all other ways, too. For this reason, the evolution of language is widely judged to be the culminating event in the emergence of humanity as we know it today.”

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