Ancestral passions
the Leakey family and the quest for humankind's beginnings
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Publication
1995 - Simon & Schuster, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
159,500 words, Guess
Page Count
638 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL24769044M
- ISBN-139780684801926
- ISBN-100684801922
- OCLC Control Number32310794
- OCLC Control Numberancestralpassion00more
and 1 more
- Library of Congress Control Number95014306
Classifications
- DDC573/.092/2
- LCCGN50.6.L43 M67 1995
- DDCB
Description
No other family in history has dominated a scientific field as the Leakey family has. Louis, Mary, and Richard Leakey have made key fossil discoveries that have shaped and reshaped our understanding of human origins. As a member of the tiny minority of scientists who believed that humankind originated in Africa millions of years ago, Louis Leakey helped to lay the theoretical groundwork for the science of paleoanthropology. In Ancestral Passions, Virginia Morell has written the first full biography of the Leakeys, a vivid portrait of a family whose contributions to science remain unmatched.
First Sentence
On a rainy April day in 1902, Mary Bazett Leakey stepped off the train at Kikuyu Station, Kenya Colony, clutching her seven-month-old baby, Gladys, in her arms.
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