We hope to find more pieces of the puzzle which will shed light on the connection between this upright, walking ape, our early ancestor, and modern man.

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• Richard Leakey:

  We are concerned that, in a few years time, this place of discovery, with its wealth of human fossi

• Richard Leakey:

  To investigate the history of man's development, the most important finds are, of course, hominid f

• Richard Leakey:

  The problem is that during the 1980s, a decade of heavy poaching, the elephants retreated to safer

• Richard Leakey:

  The land is not in the least bit fertile and yet the cattle herds grow larger and larger. A cow rep

• Richard Leakey:

  The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big touris

• Richard Leakey:

  Scientific innovations continually provide us with new means of analyzing the finds.

• Richard Leakey:

  Sadly, I am not able to take part in the fieldwork myself so much anymore, as both of my legs were

• Richard Leakey:

  Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well.

• Richard Leakey:

  Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the orig

• Richard Leakey:

  One should not forget that there are very few surviving items from this period, often just single,