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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...
Delivered before a crowd of over 500 people at John Hancock Hall in Boston Friday night, Leakey's speech kicked off a two-day lecture series sponsored by Harvard's Peabody Museum and Museum of Comparative Zoology, the Boston Museum of Science and the Foundation for Research into the Origins of Man (FROM...
...Never before have we been able to discover so much about the origin of man." Leakey said. "One can only speak of what one knows and expose the great extent of what one doesn't know...
...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...
...Kenyans seem to feel that it is particularly blessed, not least in the area of race relations. Kenya's white population, now more than 60,000, has actually grown since independence. "I do not know anybody who is not very happy with our lot right now," says Philip Leakey, 30, a member of the famous family of Kenya-based anthropologists, who last week became one of the few whites ever to be elected to parliament. And as for those slipping living standards, Kenyans believe they are not alone among their neighbors. As one proverb has it: "In Kenya, dogs...