Now this really is something to put on the mantelpiece.
About Mary Leakey
Mary Douglas Leakey, FBAwas a British paleoanthropologist who discovered the first fossilised Proconsul skull, an extinct ape which is now believed to be ancestral to humans. She also discovered the robust Zinjanthropus skull at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, eastern Africa.
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The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.
British paleoanthropologist (1913-1996)
I dug things up. I was curious. I liked to draw what I found.
British paleoanthropologist (1913-1996)
I’d rather be in a tent than in a house.
British paleoanthropologist (1913-1996)
She stops, pauses, turns to the left to glance at some possible threat or irregularity, and then continues to the north. This motion, so intensely human, transcends time.
British paleoanthropologist (1913-1996)
Now this really is something to put on the mantelpiece.
British paleoanthropologist (1913-1996)
I never felt interpretation was my job.
British paleoanthropologist (1913-1996)
No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely.
British paleoanthropologist (1913-1996)
Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.
British paleoanthropologist (1913-1996)
I had never passed a single school exam, and clearly never would.
British paleoanthropologist (1913-1996)