Human Origins

Children's Books

Leakey, Richard E.

Science, Nature & How It Works

Hamish Hamilton Ltd.

A comprehensive survey of the fields that deal with human prehistory explains the techniques used in the study of the life, appearance, and evolution of human and prehuman ancestors

Making of Mankind

Science & Math

Evolution

ABACUS +

Origins: What New Discoveries Reveal About The Emergence Of Our Species And Its Possible Future

Macdonald & J

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

Through the discovery of fossil remains in Africa, the author draws conclusions about the nature of prehistoric life and its influence on modern culture

People of the Lake: Mankind & Its Beginnings

LEWIN, Roger

Avon/Books

Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Human

Richard Leakey's personal account of his fossil hunting and landmark discoveries at Lake Turkana, his reassessment of human prehistory based on new evidence and analytic techniques, and his profound pondering of how we became "human" and what being "human" really means.

History

World

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Richard Leakey, One Of The World's Foremost Experts On Man's Evolutionary Past, Now Turns His Eye To The Future And Doesn't Like What He Sees. To the philosophical the earth is eternal, while the human race -- presumptive keeper of the world's history -- is a mere speck in the rich stream of life. It is known that nothing upon Earth is forever; geography, climate, and plant and animal life are all subject to radical change. On five occasions in the past, catastrophic natural events have caused mass extinctions on Earth. But today humans stand alone, in dubious distinction, among Earth's species: Homo Sapiens possesses the ability to destroy entire species at will, to trigger the sixth extinction in the history of life. In The Sixth Extinction, Richard Leakey and Roger Lewin consider how the grand sprawl of human life is inexorably wreaking havoc around the world. The authors of Origins and Origins Reconsidered, unimpeachable authorities on the human fossil record, turn their attention to the most uncharted anthropological territory of all: the future, and man's role in defining it. According to Leakey and Lewin, man and his surrounding species are end products of history and chance. Now, however, humans have the unique opportunity to recognize their influence on the global ecosystem, and consciously steer the outcome in order to avoid triggering an unimaginable upheaval.

The Sixth Extinction: Patterns of Life and the Future of Humankind

Business & Money

Economics

The making of mankind

M.Joseph

One Life : an autobiography

Richard Leakey recounts his childhood, spent exploring the African wilds with his parents, his involvement in the study of human ancestry, and his struggle against a kidney disease which required a life-saving kidney transplant

One Life

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Salem House Pub.

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