Louise Leakey Quotes

Louise Leakey — Kenyan Scientist born on March 21, 1971,

Princess Louise de Merode is a Kenyan paleontologist. She does research and field work on human fossils in Eastern Africa... (wikipedia)

What the fossil record does do is to force us to contemplate our place on the planet. We are but one species of several hominids that inhabited Planet Earth, and like our distant cousins who went extinct fairly recently, our time on Planet Earth is also finite.

I think when you work on fossils, and you realize that a species is there, and it's abundant for quite a long period of time, and then at some point it's no longer there - and so, when you look at that bigger picture, yes, you realize that either you change and adapt, or, as a species, you go extinct.

My father so appropriately put it that we are certainly the only animal that makes conscious choices that are bad for our survival as a species.

If you want to become a fossil, you actually need to die somewhere where your bones will be rapidly buried. You then hope that the earth moves in such a way as to bring the bones back up to the surface. And then you hope that one of us lot will walk around and find small pieces of you.

If you want to become a fossil, you need to die somewhere where your bones will be rapidly buried. You then hope that the Earth moves in such a way as to bring the bones back up to the surface.

Louise Leakey Quotes

Louise Leakey Quotes

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