Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Human

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.

Author: Richard E. Leakey
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 10/01/1993
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9780385467926
ISBN10: 0385467923
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Anthropology | General
- Nature | Animals | Mammals

About the Author
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.

Roger Lewin, PhD, is a biochemist, the former deputy editor of the British magazine New Scientist, and the author of Making Waves: Irving Dardik and His Superwave Principle, as well as many other highly praised books on biology such as Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos and Patterns in Evolution: The New Molecular View.