Origins [Hardcover]

Richard E. Leakey (Author), Roger Lewin (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 264 pages
• Publisher: E.P.Dutton Pub.; 1st edition (October 28, 1977)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0525171940
• ISBN-13: 978-0525171942
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 8.1 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,191,286 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Origins and non-Origins, August 3, 2002

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David Butterfield "botteville" (Massachusetts) - See all my reviews
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For tracing the evolution of the species, man, down from remote antiquity, this book has few peers. Richard has a flair for synthesis and obtaining and presenting the big picture, no doubt about that. He and others can even point to skeletal evidence of the first speech. We lack, however, any indication of how the fine mind and sensitive soul of the individual, Richard Leakey, arose from the unconscious and obedient tissue in which it finds itself, or what explanation is to be found there of the appreciation of origins. The Greeks said, "Know thyself", and Linnaeus took up the challenge by calling man sapiens, because he must be wise indeed who could know himself. The Leakeys inherited and espoused the challenge. More answers, Richard!

5.0 out of 5 stars Good book..., November 9, 2011

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This review is from: Origins (Hardcover)

Interesting read,I have been interested in learning more about our origins and this book is a start...I am still working on it.