Word: lake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expect Frank Navarro to languish on the shores of Princeton's Lake Carnegie for long, however. Whether on the highway-lined banks of the Harlem or alongside the meandering Wabash, Frank Navarro has proved himself an able pilot on perilous waters...
...People of the Lake: Mankind and Its Beginnings (Leakey's second and latest book), which focuses on the Koobi Fora finds, is a credit to Leakey. Leakey and co-author Roger Lewin write intelligent, provocative prose and present their amazing discoveries to readers with just the right combination of lucidity and academic integrity...
...discoveries at Koobi Fora and other sites. The basic hypothesis which Leakey then transforms claims that man's evolution involved a gradual transformation from simian, to Ramipithecus, to Australopithecus, and then finally, perhaps only 50,000 years ago, to modern man. However, Leakey contends in The People of the Lake that Australopithecus was a cousin of man, but not an ancestor...
Throughout the earlier chapters, Leakey breaks the somewhat monotonous account of paleontological history with amusing anecdotes. He tells about his friend almost being gobbled up by a crocodile while swimming in Lake Turkanay be offers insights into the personalities of big-time anthropologists and paleontologists and draws the reader into the world of bones and fractured skulls until the reader begins to share his enthusiasm...
Leakey devotes a large portion of The People of the Lake to explaining why the line of hominids leading to the evolution of man survived while the Australopithecene line died out. He argues that at some point our hominid line developed a complex economic system of gathering and hunting that required cooperation between individuals in a clan. This cooperative system, besides being intrinsically more productive, engendered the evolution of a special intellectual capability on the part of our pre-historic ancestors. The brains of our ancestors became increasingly subtle and complex because cooperation in a society requires that its members...