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...Vanderschmidt, and edited by Leon Jaroff. David Wood, our Nairobi bureau chief, spent two weeks interviewing Leakey and his colleagues in such varied settings as the anthropologist's camp in northern Kenya, the noisy cabin of the four-seat Cessna that Leakey uses to get there, and the fossil storage room in the basement of Nairobi's International Louis Leakey Memorial Institute. "As in anthropology," Wood notes, "interpreting the mass of data that filled my notebooks proved more difficult than collecting...
...prayers were not answered. No less a scientist than Biologist Thomas Henry Huxley further espoused the idea in his 1863 Man's Place in Nature. Darwin won many new converts to his concept in 1871 with the publication of The Descent of Man. Most convincing of all, the fossil record continued to reveal that man had not always existed in his present form. That more primitive men might once have walked the earth was suggested when a skull was found at Gibraltar in 1848 that was more evolved than the skulls of apes but less so than that of modern...
...used to explain Africa's lack of development as a result of climate; more recently it has been argued that African culture was not backward, only different from the West's. In any event, one must remember that in a sense Africa is our common past (through fossil finds of increasing antiquity, man's evolutionary origins have been traced to East Africa). Besides, there are intimations in Africa's remnants of unspoiled nature, of secure tribal life, that we have lost something in what we regard as our gains. But the greatest of these gains...
...goal of fusion seems worth the work, for, as the world depletes the last of its fossil fuel, the promise of an inexhaustible supply of energy seems cheap at any price. There is enough deuterium in the oceans to supply energy -even if present demand increases a hundredfold-for 10 billion years...
Countries must develop short-term alternatives to oil, such as unclear energy, coal and other fossil fuels, he said...