Anthropology 1025F/G Chapter Notes - Chapter 2-4: Judson Laipply, Louis Leakey, Richard Leakey
12 Nov 2016
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Human evolution & why it matters: a conversation with leakey & johansson. Richard leakey ( child of mary& louis leakey) * in a field as contentious as theirs, it was probably inevitable that by 1981 the two men, both in their mid-30s, had become rivals who clashed over interpretations drawn from the meager sampling of bones coming to light. Dr. johanson was riding a wave of fame as the discoverer of the skeleton nicknamed lucy, then the earliest known hominid species and judged by him to be a direct ancestor of humans. Mr. leakey, a rising member of the family whose name is synonymous with fossil hunting in africa, held a sharply divergent view. could not be an ancestor of the human lineage. The whole issue, compounded by a history of slights and misunderstandings, came to a head in front of a television camera and none other than walter cronkite.
