Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Human
The world-famous paleoanthropologist describes his fossil hunting at Lake Turkana and reassesses human prehistory, incorporating ideas from philosophy, anthropology, molecular biology, and linguistics to explore how humans acquired the qualities of consciousness and humanity. Tour.
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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.
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Richard Leakey is the world's most famous paleoanthropologist. He lives in Kenya, where he is currently in charge of that country's conservation programme. Roger Lewin is a prizewinning science writer.
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- PublisherPaw Prints 2008-06-26
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 1439505039
- ISBN 13 9781439505038
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