Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Human by Leakey, Richard E.

Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Human (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780385467926)

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Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Human by Leakey, Richard E.

Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Human

$22.00
Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Human by Leakey, Richard E.

Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Human

$22.00
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Richard E. Leakey
ISBN-10: 0385467923
ISBN-13: 9780385467926
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 10/01/1993
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/06/1993
By Richard E. Leakey
By Richard E. Leakey
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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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