Quotes by Richard Leakey

Richard Leakey

Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance.

Distance

Military

Police

As every parent knows, children go through an adolescent growth spurt, during which they put on inches at an alarming rate. Humans are unique in this respect: most mammalian species, including apes, progress almost directly from infancy to adulthood.

Children

Parent

Unique

Climate change: We have never faced a more critical time on our planet

Climate

Critical

Planets

Culture represents a novelty in the world of nature, and it could have added an effective, unifying edge to the forces of natural selection.

Culture

Nature

World

Echoing the criticism made of his father’s habilis skulls, he added that Lucy’s skull was so incomplete that most of it was ‘imagination made of plaster of Paris’, thus making it impossible to draw any firm conclusion about what species she belonged to.

Father

Paris

Skulls

For fossils to thrive, certain favorable circumstances are required. First of all, of course, remnants of life have to be there. These then need to be washed over with water as soon as possible, so that the bones are covered with a layer of sediment.

Layers

Needs

Water

For three million years we were hunter-gatherers, and it was through the evolutionary pressures of that way of life that a brain so adaptable and so creative eventually emerged. Today we stand with the brains of hunter-gatherers in our heads, looking out on a modern world made comfortable for some by the fruits of human inventiveness, and made miserable for others by the scandal of deprivation in the midst of plenty.

Creativity

Science

Years

Humans become human through intense learning not just of survival skills but of customs and social mores, kinship and social laws-that is, culture.

Law

Skills

Survival

I … believe the study of human history remains important and should not be banned. We should ensure that any archaeological studies are conducted with sensitivity and respect. Reburying relics, in my view, does not help anyone go anywhere.

Believe

Important

Views

I have been raised to believe in freedom of thought and speech. If a minority wishes to accept that position it’s their right. What I fear is that this minority may seem to be larger than it truly is. What is strange is that there are still people who believe the world is not a globe.

Atheism

Believe

People

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Analyzing

Apes

Arrogance

Art

Atheism

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Believe

Children

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Connections

Creativity

Critical

Culture

Discovery

Distance

Doubt

Easier

East

Elephants

Environmental

Events

Evolution

Facts

Father

Firsts

Forget

Fossils

Fruit

Garden

Giving

Goal

Happened

Humanity

Hunting

Important

Impossible

Innovation

Intelligence

Kenya

Language

Law

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Quotes by Richard Leakey

Richard Leakey

Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance.

As every parent knows, children go through an adolescent growth spurt, during which they put on inches at an alarming rate. Humans are unique in this respect: most mammalian species, including apes, progress almost directly from infancy to adulthood.

Climate change: We have never faced a more critical time on our planet

Culture represents a novelty in the world of nature, and it could have added an effective, unifying edge to the forces of natural selection.

Echoing the criticism made of his father’s habilis skulls, he added that Lucy’s skull was so incomplete that most of it was ‘imagination made of plaster of Paris’, thus making it impossible to draw any firm conclusion about what species she belonged to.

For fossils to thrive, certain favorable circumstances are required. First of all, of course, remnants of life have to be there. These then need to be washed over with water as soon as possible, so that the bones are covered with a layer of sediment.

Humans become human through intense learning not just of survival skills but of customs and social mores, kinship and social laws-that is, culture.

I … believe the study of human history remains important and should not be banned. We should ensure that any archaeological studies are conducted with sensitivity and respect. Reburying relics, in my view, does not help anyone go anywhere.

I have been raised to believe in freedom of thought and speech. If a minority wishes to accept that position it’s their right. What I fear is that this minority may seem to be larger than it truly is. What is strange is that there are still people who believe the world is not a globe.

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