Origins Reconsidered

Name: Origins Reconsidered
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ISBN: 9780385467926

In Search of What Makes Us Human

Richard E. Leakey, Roger Lewin

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Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
01 October 1993

Mathematics & Sciences; Early man

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.

By: Richard E. Leakey
Contributions by: Roger Lewin
Imprint: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 233mm, Width: 144mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 464g
ISBN: 9780385467926
ISBN 10: 0385467923
Pages: 432
Publication Date: 01 October 1993
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , A / AS level , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Richard Leakey is the world's most famous living paleoanthropologist. He resigned from his position as chairman of the National Museums of Kenya whenKenya'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 magazineNew 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.