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...querulous-looking fellow crouching next to Anthropologist Richard Leakey on our cover this week is Homo habilis, a 2-million-year-old hominid who was one of the predecessors of Homo sapiens. His reincarnation for the Science section story on the origins of man was the inspiration of Art Director Walter Bernard and Photographer Carl Fischer, who saw the story of man's roots as a pictorial as well as anthropological challenge...
...rebirth of Homo habilis was not easy. Fischer asked Hollywood Makeup Artist Bob O'Bradovich, whose credits include work for Beatlemania and the Hallmark Hall of Fame, to prepare a mask of Homo habilis from Leakey's sketches. A rubber model was made in New York, which Fischer and O'Bradovich then took to Leakey in Nairobi...
...Leakey was impressed. "When TIME first said they wanted me to pose with Homo habilis, I thought it was a joke," he says...
...story was written by Peter Stoler, with assistance from F. Sydnor Vanderschmidt, and edited by Leon Jaroff. David Wood, our Nairobi bureau chief, spent two weeks interviewing Leakey and his colleagues in such varied settings as the anthropologist's camp in northern Kenya, the noisy cabin of the four-seat Cessna that Leakey uses to get there, and the fossil storage room in the basement of Nairobi's International Louis Leakey Memorial Institute. "As in anthropology," Wood notes, "interpreting the mass of data that filled my notebooks proved more difficult than collecting...
...intent man in the desert is Richard Erskine Leakey, heir to one of the greatest surnames in anthropology and, at 32, a formidable scientist in his own right. He and his dusty band are looking, almost lit erally, for footprints in the sands of time, for clues to the mystery of man's origins. Their ambitious goal: to establish the nature of the creatures that veered off from the ancestral line of apes onto the evolutionary path that eventually led to man. In this pursuit, Leakey's team has turned up at the Turkana site alone more than 300 fossilized...