Ancestral Passions: The Leakey Family and the Quest for Humankind's Beginnings

Title: Ancestral Passions: The Leakey Family and the Quest for Humankind's Beginnings Author: Virginia Morell ISBN: 9780684824703 Publisher: Touchstone Published: 1996 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: Used: Very Good Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders. H 1645609 Publisher Description: 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,