Origins Reconsidered
In Search of What Makes Us Human
$35.51
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
1 October 1993
Summary
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.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780385467926 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0385467923 |
| Author: | Roger Lewin, Richard E. Leakey |
| Publisher: | Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc |
| Imprint: | Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 1 October 1993 |
| Weight: | 464g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 144mm x 233mm |
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Roger Lewin
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.
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