“Rather than living as aggregations of families in nomadic bands, as modern hunter-gatherers do, the first humans probably lived like savanna baboons.”

— Richard Leakey

The Origin of Humankind (1994)

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Kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist, and politician 1944

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