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the Leakey family and the quest for humankind's beginnings

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An edition of Ancestral passions (1995)

Ancestral passions

the Leakey family and the quest for humankind's beginnings

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No other family in history has dominated a scientific field as the Leakey family has. Louis, Mary, and Richard Leakey have made key fossil discoveries that have shaped and reshaped our understanding of human origins. As a member of the tiny minority of scientists who believed that humankind originated in Africa millions of years ago, Louis Leakey helped to lay the theoretical groundwork for the science of paleoanthropology. In Ancestral Passions, Virginia Morell has written the first full biography of the Leakeys, a vivid portrait of a family whose contributions to science remain unmatched.

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Simon & Schuster
Language
English
Pages
638

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Subjects
Paleoantropologie, Physical Anthropology, Antiquities, Physical anthropologists, Humanbiologie, Olduvai Gorge, Archäologie, Evolutie, Fossil hominids, Excavations (Archaeology), Hominidae, Biography, Fossil man, Australopithèques, Paléontologie, New York Times reviewed, Leakey, l. s. b. (louis seymour bazett), 1903-1972, Paleontology, africa, Leakey, mary d. (mary douglas), 1913-1996, Tanzania, antiquities, Anthropologists, Excavations (archaeology), africa
People
Richard E. Leakey, Mary D. Leakey (1913-1996), Leakey Familie, L. S. B. Leakey (1903-1972), Mary D. Leakey (1913-)
Places
Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, Great Britain, Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania), Tansania

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Ancestral Passions: The Leakey Family and the Quest for Humankind's Beginnings
2011, Simon & Schuster, Limited
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Ancestral Passions: The Leakey Family and the Quest for Humankind's Beginnings
August 14, 1996, Touchstone
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Ancestral passions: the Leakey family and the quest for humankind's beginnings
1995, Simon & Schuster
in English
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Ancestral passions: the Leakey family and the quest for humankind's beginnings
1995, Simon & Schuster
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 609-617) and index.

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573/.092/2, B
Library of Congress
GN50.6.L43 M67 1995

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638 p. :
Number of pages
638

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OL782357M
Internet Archive
ancestralpassion00more
ISBN 10
0684801922
LCCN
95014306
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193526
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832635

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On a rainy April day in 1902, Mary Bazett Leakey stepped off the train at Kikuyu Station, Kenya Colony, clutching her seven-month-old baby, Gladys, in her arms.
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