Origins: What New Discoveries Reveal About the Evolution of Our Species and Its Possible Future by Leakey, Richard E; Lewin, Roger

Origins: What New Discoveries Reveal About the Evolution of Our Species and Its Possible Future by Leakey, Richard E; Lewin, Roger

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Softcover, ISBN 9780354044271
Publisher: Macdonald & J, 1979
Used - Very Good. Slight handling related wear on corners/edges.

This book discusses the evolution of prehistoric ape-like creatures into human beings, theorizing that the key to this transformation was the ability to share & cooperate in a social context. A study of human evolution by a distinguished paleontologist-anthropologist and a biochemist presents a view of an early human society marked by cooperation rather than aggression and illuminates stages in the development of man's body and brain.

Richard Erskine Frere Leakey is a paleoanthropologist and conservationist. He is second of the three sons of the archaeologists Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey, and is the younger brother of Colin Leakey.