Louis Leakey Quotes
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Olduvai Gorge gives us one of the most remarkable stories of the past-the last chapter of the Earth's history, starting at the present day, right away back 2 million years.
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Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial service in Kenya.
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Raising funds for my fourth expedition proved to be very difficult.
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Stone tools are fossilized human behavior.
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Sometimes string figures were used to illustrate stories, as in the case of an Eskimo example that depicts a man catching a salmon. Sometimes they had magic or religious significance.
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We set up the promised clinic for the sick and wounded Masai.
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The Dalmatian breed of dog has many primitive characteristics.
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When my father arrived in Kenya, he had found the Kikuyu way of life similar to that of the British at the time the Romans invaded England 2,000 years ago.
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Eloquent testimony to the recovery powers of wild animals frequently becomes apparent from the study of skeletons housed in museums.
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Most Kikuyu marriages were arranged on the basis of what is described by anthropologists as the bride price.
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The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age of the deposits and their economic potential was the first time prehistory had ever been used for such a purpose.
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As a social anthropologist, I naturally accept and even stress the fact that there are major differences, both mental and psychological, which separate the different races of mankind. Indeed, I would be inclined to suggest that however great may be the physical differences between such races as the European and the Negro, the mental and psychological differences are greater still.
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There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating.
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I saw what looked like another fallen tree in front of me and put my foot on it to cross over. At that moment it reared up in front of me-the biggest python I had ever seen!
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Sometime during the many millions of years that have elapsed since mammalian faunas came into existence, some sort of island crossed from West Africa to South America.
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Far too often animals are put to sleep when they could be saved through proper care and nursing.
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I put a bullet into the back of the crocodiles neck just behind the head, thus killing it. If a crocodile is hit in any other part of its anatomy it disappears into the water and is irrecoverable.
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To save an animal's life in order that it may suffer indefinitely is something I would never condone.
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South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century.
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The author knows just what he wants to illustrate and how he would like it to be done.
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People frequently ask me why I devote so much time to seeking out facts about man’s past…the past shows clearly that we all have a common origin and that our differences in race, colour and creed are only superficial.
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The Foxhall jaw has now been missing for many years.
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