People of the Lake: Mankind and Its Beginnings

By Richard E. Leakey and Roger Lewin

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385130252
• ISBN13: 9780385130257
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: Anchor Press/Doubleday
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Does Richard Leaky rewrite the History of man?

Let's face it, fame is fickle and fleeting. This book was once a best seller by famed anthropologist Richard Leaky. The lake is Turkana, and the time is fifteen million years ago. This book covers Leakey's finds and his interpretation of such finds. There is a small black and white glossy section that displays the lake and several ancestors (including Australopithecus) The table of contents is: People of the Lake A question of survival In the Beginning A New Perspective on Human Origins The Human Family Unearthed Lessons from Bones and Stones An ancient way of life The first Affluent society The nature of Intelligence The Origins of Language S-e-x and the Need for Women's Liberation An End to the Hunting Hypothesis As you can see, this is not just a book about bones. He also quotes a lot of Freud. So, I do not know why this book fell out of favor. However, it makes for some good background reading.