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Louis Leakey

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Although we followed that hyena for the best part of half an hour, we never caught up with it.


— Louis Leakey


#best #best part #caught #followed #half

At Olduvai, for 20 years, Mary and I had investigated and made a general survey of the overall geology.


— Louis Leakey


#geology #had #i #investigated #made

Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial service in Kenya.


— Louis Leakey


#because #civil #civil servants #colonial #criticism

Far too often animals are put to sleep when they could be saved through proper care and nursing.


— Louis Leakey


#could #far #nursing #often #proper

I felt that in time simple stone tools would be found in early Pleistocene in England.


— Louis Leakey


#england #felt #found #i #pleistocene

I have examined the stomach contents of seven aardvarks.


— Louis Leakey


#examined #i #seven #stomach

I kept an open mind on the question of whether a hominid had been present in Europe in the early Pleistocene.


— Louis Leakey


#early #europe #had #hominid #i

I saw what looked like another fallen tree in front of me and put my foot on it to cross over. At that moment it reared up in front of me-the biggest python I had ever seen!


— Louis Leakey


#biggest #cross #ever #fallen #foot

Most Kikuyu marriages were arranged on the basis of what is described by anthropologists as the bride price.


— Louis Leakey


#arranged #basis #bride #described #marriages

I put a bullet into the back of the crocodile's neck just behind the head, thus killing it. If a crocodile is hit in any other part of its anatomy it disappears into the water and is irrecoverable.


— Louis Leakey


#any #back #behind #bullet #crocodile






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Did you know about Louis Leakey?

He had his first heart attacks and spent six months in the hospital. He got into a shouting match in Kikuyu one evening with Jomo Kenyatta who was lecturing on the topic. The two still cared about each other but were apart and conducted different professional lives.

He also played a major role in creating organizations for future research in Africa and for protecting wildlife there. Leakey participated in national events of British East Africa and Kenya during the 1950s. Having been a prime mover in establishing a tradition of palaeoanthropological inquiry he was able to motivate the next generation to continue it notably within his own family many of whom also became prominent.

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