Ancestral passions

Touchstone

2011

663 p.

9780684801926

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Acknowledgments; Dedication; Contents; Chapter 1: Kabete; Chapter 2: From Cambridge to Olduvai; Chapter 3: Laying Claim to The Earliest Man; Chapter 4: Louis and Mary; Chapter 5: Disaster at Kanam; Chapter 6: Olduvai's Bounty; Chapter 7: Consequences; Chapter 8: Cloak-and-Dagger; Chapter 9: Race for the Miocene; Chapter 10: A Life in the Sediments; Chapter 11: Louis and Kenyatta; Chapter 12: "Our Man"; Chapter 13: Fame, Fortune, and Zinj; Chapter 14: Mary's Dig; Chapter 15: Murder and Mayhem; Chapter 16: The Human with Ability Chapter 17: Chimpanzees and Other LovesChapter 18: Richard Makes His Move; Chapter 19: A Girl for the Gorillas; Chapter 20: To the Omo; Chapter 21: Breaking Away; Chapter 22: Richard Strikes Oil; Chapter 23: Mining Hominids at Olduvai; Chapter 24: Dearest Dian; Chapter 25: Father and Son; Chapter 26: Jackpot at Koobi Fora; Chapter 27: Misadventure at Calico; Chapter 28: An Unstoppable Man; Chapter 29: Roar of the Old Lion; Chapter 30: An End and a Beginning; Chapter 31: The Best Bones; Chapter 32: The Gladiators' Clash; Chapter 33: On The Trail of Homo Erectus; Chapter 34: Mother and Son Chapter 35: A New ContenderChapter 36: The Name Game; Chapter 37: Footprints for the Mantelpiece; Chapter 38: Battling Over Bones; Chapter 39: Richard Reborn; Chapter 40: "How Very Human"; Chapter 41: Grande Dame of Archeology; Chapter 42: A New Challenge; Epilogue; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Photo Credits

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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