Richard Leakey Quotes About Evolution

Quotes about: Evolution

• For three million years we were hunter-gatherers, and it was through the evolutionary pressures of that way of life that a brain so adaptable and so creative eventually emerged. Today we stand with the brains of hunter-gatherers in our heads, looking out on a modern world made comfortable for some by the fruits of human inventiveness, and made miserable for others by the scandal of deprivation in the midst of plenty.

  Richard Leakey

  Creativity, Science, Years

• To me it's a question of being able to look backward and give the present a root... To give meaning to where we are today, we need to look at where we have come from.

  Richard Leakey

  Roots, Giving, Needs

• Echoing the criticism made of his father's habilis skulls, he added that Lucy's skull was so incomplete that most of it was 'imagination made of plaster of Paris', thus making it impossible to draw any firm conclusion about what species she belonged to.

  Richard Leakey

  Father, Paris, Skulls

• Natural selection operates according to immediate cirumstances and not toward a long-term goal. Homo sapiens did eventually evolve as a descendant of the first humans, but there was nothing inevitable about it.

  Richard Leakey

  Long, Goal, Firsts

  "The Origin of Humankind". Book by Richard Leakey, 1994.

• My father used to say that, through culture, humans effectively domesticated themselves.

  Richard Leakey

  Father, Culture, Evolution

• It seems inconceivable that a species of human could possess fully modern language and not be fully modern in all other ways, too. For this reason, the evolution of language is widely judged to be the culminating event in the emergence of humanity as we know it today.

  Richard Leakey

  Humanity, Events, Today

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