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Ancestral Passions: The Leakey Family and the Quest for Humankind's Beginnings

This is a biography of the first family of anthropology - Louis, Mary and Richard Leakey, whose discoveries have laid the foundations for much of our knowledge about the origins of man.

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adult
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epic · 638 pages

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