British - Scientist | August 7, 1903 - October 1, 1972
We set up the promised clinic for the sick and wounded Masai.
Louis Leakey
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I have examined the stomach contents of seven aardvarks.
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Sometime during the many millions of years that have elapsed since mammalian faunas came into existence, some sort of island crossed from West Africa to South America.
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At Olduvai, for 20 years, Mary and I had investigated and made a general survey of the overall geology.
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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.
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The author knows just what he wants to illustrate and how he would like it to be done.
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The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age of the deposits and their economic potential was the first time prehistory had ever been used for such a purpose.
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The majority of people in Angola were not provided with any kind of schooling and were completely illiterate, very badly paid, and treated almost as slaves.
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Far too often animals are put to sleep when they could be saved through proper care and nursing.
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Raising funds for my fourth expedition proved to be very difficult.
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The Foxhall jaw has now been missing for many years.
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I kept an open mind on the question of whether a hominid had been present in Europe in the early Pleistocene.
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