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

There is a pleasing irony that a single family--the Leakeys--has been one of the most important and effective forces in the age-old effort to trace the human family to its origins. Virginia Morell's book is a fascinating and authoritative personal and scientific biography of the real family (comprised of Louis, Mary, and Richard Leakey), their scientific progeny, and (again in a fitting touch of irony), the competing bands of modern anthropologists competing over limited paleontological and conceptual resources of publication, prestige, and power, much like ancient hominid bands competing for caves, copulations, and carcasses. Highly Recommended.Read More

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  • Product Description

    An authoritative biography of the First Family of anthropology--Louis, Mary, and Richard Leakey--shows how they laid the foundations for what is known about the origins of man and reveals their jealousies and rivalries with one another. 30,000 first printing.

  • 0684801922
  • 9780684801926
  • Virginia Morell
  • 3 January 1996
  • Simon & Schuster Ltd
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 639
  • Television tie-in edition
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