Word: leakey
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Anthropologist Richard E. Leakey stressed that much remains to be discovered about man's evolution at a conference on the origins of man last weekend...
...most stolid anthropologist could construct a story of suspense and revelation. But Johanson and Co-Author Maitland Edey are no standard scientists. Like polished mystery writers, they trace the many searches for origins and review the rivalries that have driven such scholarly sleuths as Louis, Mary and Richard Leakey. Since Johanson is driven by the same combination of curiosity, daring and egotism, Lucy is both enlivened and marred by a lack of objectivity. Johanson is convinced that he is now in sole possession of the truth about human roots-and perhaps...