Origins Reconsidered - In Search of What Makes Us Human

Informationen zum Autor Richard Leakey is the world’s most famous living paleoanthropologist. He resigned from his position as chairman of the National Museums of Kenya when Kenya’s president, Daniel arap Moi appointed him to head the Kenya Wildlife Service. His parents were the archaeologists Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey. His half-brother is the leading plant scientist, Colin Leakey.  Roger Lewin , PhD,  is a biochemist, the former deputy editor of the British magazine  New Scientist , and the author of Making Waves: Irving Dardik and His Superwave Principle , as well as many other highly praised books on biology such as Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos and Patterns in Evolution: The New Molecular View . Klappentext Richard Leakey's personal account of his fossil hunting and landmark discoveries at Lake Turkana, his reassessment of human prehistory based on new evidence and analytic techniques, and his profound pondering of how we became "human" and what being "human" really means. Zusammenfassung Richard Leakey's personal account of his fossil hunting and landmark discoveries at Lake Turkana, his reassessment of human prehistory based on new evidence and analytic techniques, and his profound pondering of how we became "human" and what being "human" really means.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Leakey, Richard E Leakey, Richard E. Leakey, Leakey Richard E., Roger Lewin
• Publisher: Anchor Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.1993
• EAN: 9780385467926
• ISBN: 978-0-385-46792-6
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 144 mm x 233 mm x 23 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SCIENCE / General, MATHEMATICS / General, Mathematics & science, Mathematics and science