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Ancestral passions, the Leakey family and the quest for humankind's beginnings, Virginia Morell

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Ancestral passions, the Leakey family and the quest for humankind's beginnings, Virginia Morell

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 609-617) and index

resource.biographical

collective biography

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illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Ancestral passions

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bibliography

Oclc number

32310794

Responsibility statement

Virginia Morell

Series statement

A Touchstone book

Sub title

the Leakey family and the quest for humankind's beginnings

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

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