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Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Human Paperback - 1993

by Richard E. Leakey; Contribution by Roger Lewin

Leakey's personal account of his fossil hunting and landmark discoveries at Lake Turkana, his reassessment of human prehistory based on new evidence and analytic techniques, and his profound pondering of how we became "human" and what being "human" really means. 40 photos.


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Richard Leakey's personal account of his fossil hunting and landmark discoveries at Lake Turkana, his reassessment of human prehistory based on new evidence and analytic techniques, and his profound pondering of how we became " human" and what being " human" really means.

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They had set out early, this band of six purposeful individuals, striding across rolling, grassy terrain punctuated here and there by flat-topped acacia trees.

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Richard Leakey's personal account of his fossil hunting and landmark discoveries at Lake Turkana, his reassessment of human prehistory based on new evidence and analytic techniques, and his profound pondering of how we became "human" and what being "human" really means.

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  • Title Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Human
  • Author Richard E. Leakey; Contribution by Roger Lewin
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 432
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Anchor Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 1993-10-01
  • ISBN 9780385467926 / 0385467923
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6 x 0.9 in (23.11 x 15.24 x 2.29 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Human evolution, Anthropology
  • Dewey Decimal Code 599.9

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  • Publishers Weekly, 09/06/1993, Page 0

About the author

Richard Leakey is the world's most famous living paleoanthropologist. He resigned from his position as chairman of the National Museums of Kenya when Kenya's president, Daniel arap Moi appointed him to head the Kenya Wildlife Service. His parents were the archaeologists Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey. His half-brother is the leading plant scientist, Colin Leakey. Roger Lewin, PhD, is a biochemist, the former deputy editor of the British magazine New Scientist, and the author of Making Waves: Irving Dardik and His Superwave Principle, as well as many other highly praised books on biology such as Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos and Patterns in Evolution: The New Molecular View.
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