Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Richard Leakey, fully Richard Erskine Frere Leakey
Kenyan Politician, Paleoanthropologist and Conservationalist
"We think that groups of between 30 and 40 early men would have settled in an area measuring a hundred square kilometers."
"Whether or not all this came to pass in an East African ditch, I wouldn't like to say. Perhaps it happened in North Africa or further west, but Africa was definitely the place."