Richard E. Leakey

Origins Reconsidered

In Search of What Makes Us Human

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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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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Lewin, Roger

ISBN: 978-0-385-46792-6
EAN: 9780385467926
Produktnummer: 9386618
Verlag: Random House N.Y.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1993
Seitenangabe: 424 S.

Über den Autor

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.