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My father so appropriately put it that we are certainly the only animal that makes conscious choices that are bad for our survival as a species.
— Louise Leakey
I have examined the stomach contents of seven aardvarks.
— Louis Leakey
Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance.
— Richard Leakey
To have arrived on this earth as a product of a biological accident, only to depart through human arrogance, would be the ultimate irony.
— Richard Leakey
Scientific innovations continually provide us with new means of analyzing the finds.
— Richard Leakey
I never felt interpretation was my job.
— Mary Leakey
Eloquent testimony to the recovery powers of wild animals frequently becomes apparent from the study of skeletons housed in museums.
— Louis Leakey
I can't think of any other region in the world which is such a vast source of fossils.
— Richard Leakey
We are bipedal apes, and it should not be surprising to see that fact reflected in the way our ancestors lived.
— Richard Leakey
I'd rather be in a tent than in a house.
— Mary Leakey
Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.
— Mary Leakey
The author knows just what he wants to illustrate and how he would like it to be done.
— Louis Leakey
Now this really is something to put on the mantelpiece.
— Mary Leakey
There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating.
— Louis Leakey
Stone tools are fossilized human behavior.
— Louis Leakey
It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya, which is populated chiefly by migrant nomads.
— Richard Leakey
We think that groups of between 30 and 40 early men would have settled in an area measuring a hundred square kilometers.
— Richard Leakey
I got too old to live in the bush. You really need to be youngish and healthy, so it seemed stupid to keep going.
— Mary Leakey
The land is not in the least bit fertile and yet the cattle herds grow larger and larger. A cow represents capital investment here.
— Richard Leakey
The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels.
— Richard Leakey
My father used to say that, through culture, humans effectively domesticated themselves.
— Richard Leakey
In the area of species protection, we should concern ourselves with what is right as opposed to what might be easier, or popular in the short term.
— Richard Leakey
Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well.
— Richard Leakey
I kept an open mind on the question of whether a hominid had been present in Europe in the early Pleistocene.
— Louis Leakey
To save an animal's life in order that it may suffer indefinitely is something I would never condone.
— Louis Leakey
To investigate the history of man's development, the most important finds are, of course, hominid fossils.
— Richard Leakey
Humans become human through intense learning not just of survival skills but of customs and social mores, kinship and social laws-that is, culture.
— Richard Leakey
It's the next annihilation of vast numbers of species. It is happening now, and we, the human race, are its cause
— Richard Leakey
I, too, am convinced that our ancestors came from Africa.
— Richard Leakey
Ritual disposal of the dead speaks clearly of an awareness of death, and thus an awareness of self.
— Richard Leakey
Most Kikuyu marriages were arranged on the basis of what is described by anthropologists as the bride price.
— Louis Leakey
South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century.
— Louis Leakey
Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with. It is a life-long task.
— Richard Leakey
Far too often animals are put to sleep when they could be saved through proper care and nursing.
— Louis Leakey
The Foxhall jaw has now been missing for many years.
— Louis Leakey
At Olduvai, for 20 years, Mary and I had investigated and made a general survey of the overall geology.
— Louis Leakey
Who are we? That is the big question. And essentially we are just an upright, walking, big brained, super intelligent ape.
— Louise Leakey
The pioneering anthropologist Louis Leakey once stated, Without an understanding of who we are, we cannot truly advance.
— Gregg Braden
I felt that in time simple stone tools would be found in early Pleistocene in England.
— Louis Leakey
