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    Origins Reconsidered

    In Search of What Makes Us Human

    Author Richard E. Leakey
    Contributions by Roger Lewin
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    $22.00 US
    Knopf | Anchor
    5.66"W x 9.18"H x 0.92"D  
    On sale Oct 01, 1993 | 432 Pages | 9780385467926
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
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    Beginning with his stunning discovery of a 1.5 million-year-old skeleton near Kenya's Lake Turkana, world-renowned anthropologist Richard Leakey explores our fossil record and asks fundamental questions about the origins and evolution of the human species.

    PRAISE FOR ORIGINS RECONSIDERED

    "Readable, exciting and provocative big sky popular science."  --Washington Post Book World

    "Crisply written... It is not often that a major participant in so contentious a field delivers such a vivid, generally evenhanded summation of the current state of that science."  --New York Times Book Review

    "Autobiography and analysis both pivot on the discovery in 1984 by Leakey and his associates of 'the Turkana boy,' a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil.  The 'eureka!' of the find is palpable... Vintage Leakey."  --Kirkus Reviews
    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. View titles by Richard E. Leakey

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    Beginning with his stunning discovery of a 1.5 million-year-old skeleton near Kenya's Lake Turkana, world-renowned anthropologist Richard Leakey explores our fossil record and asks fundamental questions about the origins and evolution of the human species.

    PRAISE FOR ORIGINS RECONSIDERED

    "Readable, exciting and provocative big sky popular science."  --Washington Post Book World

    "Crisply written... It is not often that a major participant in so contentious a field delivers such a vivid, generally evenhanded summation of the current state of that science."  --New York Times Book Review

    "Autobiography and analysis both pivot on the discovery in 1984 by Leakey and his associates of 'the Turkana boy,' a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil.  The 'eureka!' of the find is palpable... Vintage Leakey."  --Kirkus Reviews

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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. View titles by Richard E. Leakey

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