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Word: omo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Back in Nairobi, young Leakey began rebuilding his neglected safari business and married Margaret Cropper, a young researcher who had been his mother's assistant at Olduvai. But he could not stay away from anthropology. In 1967 he joined an expedition organized by his father to the Omo Valley in Ethiopia. Well before it was over he knew he was ready to strike out on his own. Says Leakey: "I already knew how to organize an expedition and how to find fossils. I wanted to have my own show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Puzzling Out Man's Ascent | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

...this ambitious series, Jacob Bronowski's "personal view" of the development of civilization, carries the gloomy foreboding that the viewer may be in for a three-month brush-up course in anthropology-no bad thing, perhaps, but not an exciting prospect either. Bronowski in Ethiopia's Omo Valley musing over the cranial capacity of our earliest ancestors, Bronowski reflecting on the first stirrings of the artistic impulse before the cave paintings at Altamira -it is all ground that other popularizers have covered. Though he makes an engagingly earnest guide, other cultured minds have already taken short trips over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Viewpoints | 1/13/1975 | See Source »

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