[Red Badger]

Leakey was the Carl Sagan of Paleontology........

[Bernard Marx]

The Sagan comparison is very apt. Both knew how to “work a room” to generate publicity and funding. I think Leakey’s kids are better at it than the Old Man though...

[eartrumpet]

“Leakey was the Carl Sagan of Paleontology........”

You mean the quartzite chopper was billions and billions of years old?