Humans become human through intense learning not just of survival skills but of customs and social mores, kinship and social laws-that is, culture.
In the area of species protection, we should concern ourselves with what is right as opposed to what might be easier, or popular in the short term. - Richard Leakey
In the area of species protection, we should concern ourselves with what is right as opposed to what might be easier, or popular in the short term.
- Richard Leakey
It has taken biologists some 230 years to identify and describe three quarters of a million insects; if there are indeed at least thirty million, as … - Richard Leakey
It has taken biologists some 230 years to identify and describe three quarters of a million insects; if there are indeed at least thirty million, as …
Spoken language clearly differentiates Homo sapiens from all other creatures. None but humankind produces a complex spoken language, a medium for com… - Richard Leakey
Spoken language clearly differentiates Homo sapiens from all other creatures. None but humankind produces a complex spoken language, a medium for com…
It seems inconceivable that a species of human could possess fully modern language and not be fully modern in all other ways, too. For this reason, t… - Richard Leakey
It seems inconceivable that a species of human could possess fully modern language and not be fully modern in all other ways, too. For this reason, t…
It's the next annihilation of vast numbers of species. It is happening now, and we, the human race, are its cause - Richard Leakey
It's the next annihilation of vast numbers of species. It is happening now, and we, the human race, are its cause
Culture represents a novelty in the world of nature, and it could have added an effective, unifying edge to the forces of natural selection. - Richard Leakey
Culture represents a novelty in the world of nature, and it could have added an effective, unifying edge to the forces of natural selection.
The problem of the apes is not a shortage of money, it is a shortage of strategy. Let us devote our minds... the one thing we have more of than other… - Richard Leakey
The problem of the apes is not a shortage of money, it is a shortage of strategy. Let us devote our minds... the one thing we have more of than other…
Humans become human through intense learning not just of survival skills but of customs and social mores, kinship and social laws-that is, culture. - Richard Leakey
To me it's a question of being able to look backward and give the present a root... To give meaning to where we are today, we need to look at where w… - Richard Leakey
To me it's a question of being able to look backward and give the present a root... To give meaning to where we are today, we need to look at where w…
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