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...believe that man was created in the image of God. If Mr. Leakey and the other anthropologists want to claim kinship with the apes and gorillas and monkeys, that's their pleasure...
...What if Leakey, or anyone else, should discover an intact Australopithecus africanus with only 23 ribs...
...look back: the Fundamentalist contingent is in hot pursuit. The conscientious scholarship of a Leakey notwithstanding, there are millions of people who still pray that any truth of evolution will not become generally known or believed...
...Richard Leakey's life work, in fact, has made him impatient with those of narrow ethnic and national perspectives. He makes it clear to all that he is a Kenyan and proud to be a citizen of that African nation. Furthermore, he notes that racial differences, as they are commonly perceived, are a superficial and recent development, having arisen only about 15,000 years ago. Says Leakey: "I am aghast that people think they are different from each other. We all share...
Finding fossils requires both sharp eyes and a sort of anthropological sixth sense. An experienced fossil hunter, Ka-moya Kimeu, who heads one of Richard Leakey's search teams, has found scores of fragments that attest to early man's presence in East Africa. Most people would walk past these small brownish objects without seeing them...