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...journalists too. Few possess more of it than Jaroff, who has been explaining the mysteries of the universe to TIME readers since 1966, when he became the magazine's chief science writer. Later named senior editor of the section, he oversaw projects, including the memorable cover on anthropologist Richard Leakey and a centennial tribute to Albert Einstein, that proved so successful they led to his role as founding editor of Discover magazine. Four years later, he returned to TIME in the newly created position of sciences editor...
...late Louis Leakey, for years the dominant male in the field of human- fossil studies, believed that women made better primate researchers than men. His Exhibit A was Jane Goodall, whose work on chimpanzees in Tanzania has been justly celebrated. Exhibit B also achieved acclaim but, on balance, muted the generalization. In 1966 Leakey sent Dian Fossey to the Congo slope of the Virunga volcanic forest to study the habits of the mountain gorilla. Fossey convinced the eminent prehistorian of her resolve with only a few free-lance articles she had written for the Louisville Courier-Journal. Her previous...
...convinced that if the ivory trade were not controlled, it would result in the extinction of the animals," said Leakey...
...panelists--paleontologist Richard Leakey, the director of Kenya's Wildlife Services, and Richard Garstang of the Endangered Wildlife Trust of Southern Africa--disagreed over the role of ivory trading. While the Kenyan elephant population is dangerously low, Garstang said, elephant overpopulation in South Africa makes that government's policy of state-run population control and ivory trading an appropriate solution...
...days are gone in Kenya when the agriculture is limited to large farms headed by white colonists," said Leakey. "We are seeing a radical transformation in land use. Conservation has to be seen against that backdrop...