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Richard Leakey Quotes

1944–2022 Kenya

Richard Erskine Frere Leakey (19 December 1944 – 2 January 2022) was a Kenyan politician, paleoanthropologist and conservationist.

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The painted, engraved, and carved images of prehistory are threads from past cultures, and we are foreigners trying to interpret their meaning. Perhaps more than anything else, art can be fully understood only in the context of the culture that produced it.

Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Human (1992)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Richard Leakey (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.