Origins: What New Discoveries Reveal About the Emergence of Our Species and Its Possible Future - Hardcover

Leakey, Richard E.

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9780517317136: Origins: What New Discoveries Reveal About the Emergence of Our Species and Its Possible Future

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ISBN 10: 0517317133 ISBN 13: 9780517317136

Publisher: Random House Value Pub, 1983

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A study of human evolution by a distinguished paleontologist-anthropologist and a biochemist presents a view of an early human society marked by cooperation rather than aggression and illuminates stages in the development of man's body and brain

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Richard Leakey, whom Harvard's David Pilbeam calls the "organizing genius of modern paleoanthropology," is the director of the National Museums of Kenya. The son of Louis and Mary Leakey, Richard has continued his parents' pioneering field work in East Africa.
Roger Lewin is a biochemist, Deputy Editor of the British magazine, New Scientist, and the author of In Defense of the Body, as well as two other highly-praised books on biology.

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