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Richard Leakey [1944-0] Kenyan

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Environmentalist, Kenyan Politician

Richard Erskine Frere Leakey is a Kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist, and politician. He is second of the three sons of the archaeologists Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey, and is the younger half-brother of Colin Leakey.

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Elephants can live to an age of up to 70 or 80 years and they have a good memory. It could be they come across an area that is experiencing a drought. Then they continue on their path and run into people.	Age	101
Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance.		102
The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels.		103
One should not forget that there are very few surviving items from this period, often just single, small bones, a tooth, a sliver of the skull. Categorizing these pieces can be very difficult.		104
A number of scientists with greatly different backgrounds can come up with completely different assessments. The discussions or controversies are endless. Once a year, we try to bring the most important discoverers together to exchange their experiences and knowledge.	Knowledge	105
I would hazard a guess that we have found fossilized human remains of at least a thousand different specimens in South and East Africa, more or less complete at that. I think this is where the prelude to human history was primarily played out.		106
Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with. It is a life-long task.		107
I can't think of any other region in the world which is such a vast source of fossils.		108
Earlier, 100,000 elephants lived in Kenya and we didn't have any noteworthy problem with it. The problem that we have is not that there are now more elephants.		109
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.		110
Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well.		111
For fossils to thrive, certain favorable circumstances are required. First of all, of course, remnants of life have to be there. These then need to be washed over with water as soon as possible, so that the bones are covered with a layer of sediment.		112
We think that groups of between 30 and 40 early men would have settled in an area measuring a hundred square kilometers.		113
We are concerned that, in a few years time, this place of discovery, with its wealth of human fossils, the like of which can be found nowhere else in the world, could be completely destroyed.		114
To investigate the history of man's development, the most important finds are, of course, hominid fossils.		115
Scientific innovations continually provide us with new means of analyzing the finds.		116
Sadly, I am not able to take part in the fieldwork myself so much anymore, as both of my legs were amputated following an airplane crash twelve years ago.		117
It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya, which is populated chiefly by migrant nomads.		118
I, too, am convinced that our ancestors came from Africa.		119
Whether or not all this came to pass in an East African ditch, I wouldn't like to say. Perhaps it happened in North Africa or further west, but Africa was definitely the place.		120
The problem is that during the 1980s, a decade of heavy poaching, the elephants retreated to safer areas. And now people have moved into the corridors once used by the elephants.		121
The land is not in the least bit fertile and yet the cattle herds grow larger and larger. A cow represents capital investment here.		122

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