Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with. It is a life-long task. (Richard Leakey)

Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with. It is a life-long task.

Richard Leakey

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