“Where Breuil has seen chaos—or at least, randomness—in wall art, Leroi-Gourhan sought and found order.”

—  Richard Leakey

Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Human (1992)

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Kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist, and politician 1944

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