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Ancestral passions : the Leakey family and the quest for humankind's beginnings

Title
Ancestral passions : the Leakey family and the quest for humankind's beginnings / Virginia Morell.
Author
Morell, Virginia.
Publication
New York : Simon & Schuster, 1995.

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638 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates; 24 cm
Summary
  • No other family in history has dominated a scientific field as the Leakey family has. Louis, Mary, and Richard Leakey have made key fossil discoveries that have shaped and reshaped our understanding of human origins. As a member of the tiny minority of scientists who believed that humankind originated in Africa millions of years ago, Louis Leakey helped to lay the theoretical groundwork for the science of paleoanthropology.
  • In Ancestral Passions, Virginia Morell has written the first full biography of the Leakeys, a vivid portrait of a family whose contributions to science remain unmatched.
Subject
  • Leakey, L. S. B. 1903-1972
  • Leakey, Mary D. 1913-1996
  • Leakey, Richard E
  • Physical anthropologists > Olduvai Gorge > Biography
  • Physical anthropologists > Great Britain > Biography
  • Fossil hominids > Olduvai Gorge
  • Excavations (Archaeology) > Olduvai Gorge
  • Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania) > Antiquities
Note
  • Includes index.
ISBN
0684801922
LCCN
95014306
OCLC
  • 32310794
  • ocm32310794
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries