#d

Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with. It is a life-long task. ↗

— Richard Leakey

#discovery #ends #life-long #original #science

A number of scientists with greatly different backgrounds can come up with completely different assessments. The discussions or controversies are endless. Once a year, we try to bring the most important discoverers together to exchange their experiences and knowledge. ↗

— Richard Leakey

#backgrounds #bring #come #completely #controversies

Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list. ↗

— Denis Leary

#end #folks #hates #i #know

I would hazard a guess that we have found fossilized human remains of at least a thousand different specimens in South and East Africa, more or less complete at that. I think this is where the prelude to human history was primarily played out. ↗

— Richard Leakey

#complete #different #east #found #guess

I, too, am convinced that our ancestors came from Africa. ↗

— Richard Leakey

#am #ancestors #came #convinced #i

It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya, which is populated chiefly by migrant nomads. ↗

— Richard Leakey

#control #impossible #kenya #migrant #northern

One should not forget that there are very few surviving items from this period, often just single, small bones, a tooth, a sliver of the skull. Categorizing these pieces can be very difficult. ↗

— Richard Leakey

#categorizing #difficult #few #forget #items

I'm still a, you know, a silly girl... a big kid. ↗

— Coco Lee

#girl #i #kid #know #silly

Sadly, I am not able to take part in the fieldwork myself so much anymore, as both of my legs were amputated following an airplane crash twelve years ago. ↗

— Richard Leakey

#ago #airplane #am #amputated #anymore

Scientific innovations continually provide us with new means of analyzing the finds. ↗

— Richard Leakey

#continually #finds #innovations #means #new