Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Human

Richard E. Leakey
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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.
Genres: ScienceAnthropologyNonfictionEvolutionHistoryArchaeologyBiologyAfricaPrehistoryPhilosophy
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