We think that groups of between 30 and 40 early men would have settled in an area measuring a hundred square kilometers. (Richard Leakey)
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. (Richard Leakey)
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. (Richard Leakey)
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. (Richard Leakey)
It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya, which is populated chiefly by migrant nomads. (Richard Leakey)
The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels. (Richard Leakey)
Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well. (Richard Leakey)
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. (Richard Leakey)
There should be concern expressed at every possible venue to bring pressure on both the African governments and on the international bodies to do something about this. Unless this is stopped, these species could become extinct, and it would be a terrible loss to humanity. (Richard Leakey)
Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance. (Richard Leakey)
Baboons, for example, live on the ground as well as in the trees, where they try to get hold of birds' eggs. What counts is the right balance. (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 Erwin (Terry Erwin, the Smithsonian Institute) estimates, then, working as they have in the past, insect taxonomists have ten thousand years of employment ahead of them. Ghilean Prance, director of the Botanical Gardens in Kew, estimates that a complete list of plants in the Americas would occupy taxonomists for four centuries, again working at historical rates. (Richard Leakey)
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. (Richard Leakey)
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. (Richard Leakey)
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. (Richard Leakey)
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