My father so appropriately put it that we are certainly the only animal that makes conscious choices that are bad for our survival as a species.

- Louise Leakey

Who are we? That is the big question. And essentially we are just an upright-walking, big-brained, super-intelligent ape.

- Louise Leakey

I think when you work on fossils, and you realize that a species is there, and it's abundant for quite a long period of time, and then at some point …

- Louise Leakey

If you want to become a fossil, you need to die somewhere where your bones will be rapidly buried. You then hope that the Earth moves in such a way a…

- Louise Leakey

Its important to remember that we evolved. Now, I know thats a dirty word for some people, but we evolved from common ancestors with the gorillas, th…

- Louise Leakey

In the rush of today's world, and with more than half of us now living in cities, the majority of people are less and less connected with the spectac…

- Louise Leakey

What is it that really makes us, us? It's our collective intelligence. It's our ability to write things down, our language and our consciousness.

- Louise Leakey