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Richard Leakey

"Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well."

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"Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well."

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"Elephants can live to an age of up to 70 or 80 years and they have a good memory. It could be they come across an area that is experiencing a drought. Then they continue on their path and run into people."
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"Sadly, I am not able to take part in the fieldwork myself so much anymore, as both of my legs were amputated following an airplane crash twelve years ago."
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"We think that groups of between 30 and 40 early men would have settled in an area measuring a hundred square kilometers."
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"For fossils to thrive, certain favorable circumstances are required. First of all, of course, remnants of life have to be there. These then need to be washed over with water as soon as possible, so that the bones are covered with a layer of sediment."
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"We hope to find more pieces of the puzzle which will shed light on the connection between this upright, walking ape, our early ancestor, and modern man."
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"A number of scientists with greatly different backgrounds can come up with completely different assessments. The discussions or controversies are endless. Once a year, we try to bring the most important discoverers together to exchange their experiences and knowledge."
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"Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance."
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"The land is not in the least bit fertile and yet the cattle herds grow larger and larger. A cow represents capital investment here."
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"The problem is that during the 1980s, a decade of heavy poaching, the elephants retreated to safer areas. And now people have moved into the corridors once used by the elephants."
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"I would hazard a guess that we have found fossilized human remains of at least a thousand different specimens in South and East Africa, more or less complete at that. I think this is where the prelude to human history was primarily played out."
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