Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Human

by Richard E. Leakey, Roger Lewin (Contribution by)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780385467926
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	10/01/1993
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	432
Product dimensions:	5.66(w) x 9.18(h) x 0.92(d)

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.

Editorial Reviews

Renowned paleonathropologist Leakey returns to his earlier work--especially his 1977 book Origins (also co-authored by science writer Lewin)--to poke holes in his previous beliefs, but more importantly to reassess how we became "human," and what, after all, being human really means. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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