Opinion

The famed paleoanthropologist explored humankind’s origins and worked to safeguard a future for humans and wildlife alike, in Kenya and beyond

Dr. Richard Leakey in 1991, with twenty tons of elephant tusks, captured from poachers. The tusks were burned to keep ivory off the international market and to discourage the illegal killing of elephants. Credit: Andrew Holbrooke/Corbis via Getty Images

Opinion

The famed paleoanthropologist explored humankind’s origins and worked to safeguard a future for humans and wildlife alike, in Kenya and beyond

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Virginia Morell is a contributing correspondent for Science, and the author of a biography of the Leakey family, Ancestral Passions: the Leakey Family and the Quest for Humankind’s Beginnings, and co-author with Richard Leakey of Wildlife Wars. Credit: Nick Higgins

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