Thanks nickcarraway.
Posted on 01/03/2022 5:26:10 PM PST by nickcarraway
Ping
Great man, did wonderful work. RIP
I almost thought this thread was about Patrick Leahy.
Thanks nickcarraway.
[I almost thought this thread was about Patrick Leahy.]
The post was perfect but should have been pre-pended with:
Speaking of fossils, I almost thought this thread was about Patrick Leahy.
Does his skeleton go in the progressive chart of amoeba to fish to frog to lizard to ape to man?
Leahy wasn’t worthy to shine Leakey’s boots.
His Dad was one of my heroes when I was a kid. Of course The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau was the TV highlight of my week.
From your lips…
I thought it was about Bruce Lietzke.
I think he was Jane Goodall’s mentor. Or perhaps it was his father.
Louis and Mary Leakey were undisputed pioneers in the field of humanoid fossils. R.I.P., Richard, but it seemed to me that he was at the forefront of a number of very speculative claims about human origins. I’m by no means a serious student of physical anthropology, but 25, 30 years ago, it always seemed like Richard and his peers were digging up various human skeleton remains, naming them “australopithecus whatever” and arguing, or even feuding, without much in the way of convincing proof, about whose bones were older and which bones were in the direct human line and which weren’t. I don’t want to say he was a pseudo-scientist per se, but kinda seemed like the particular field in which he was a leader flirts with pseudo-science.
Same here! When I was a little girl in grade school and asked “what do you want to be when you grow up?” I answered “a marine biologist” so my brother would good-naturedly tease me and say I wanted to be a marine, which he thought was funny because girls couldn’t be marines back then (dating myself here).
I did not become a marine biologist, but I did get to work on an archeaologigical dig in college.
Bury Leakey in Africa and in about 2 million years dig him up and hold up his skull and say hmm... primitive sub species.
Truly the loss of a brave man. Amazing that he survived for 42 years after his first kidney transplant, not to mention the other horrors. I think it was his father who inspired Jane Goodall. As a young woman fascinated by the idea of going into anthropology myself I was paying attention in those days. There has definitely been a split in the arguments for more and fewer branches on the evolutionary tree. Scientific argument is good, it eventually leads to more likely truth. I am currently reading the book Galileo’s Daughter. How hampering approved religion was in those days. Is it still hampering science today??? It certainly appears that the revelations of Big Pharma are having a big impact.
Will he be fossilized?........................
That and Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom!.............
RIP.
Possibly, but it’s not unlikely that no one will be around to see it.
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