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Louise Leakey Quotes: My father so appropriately put it that we are certainly the only animal that makes conscious choices that are bad for our survival as a species.
         

My father so appropriately put it that we are certainly the only animal that makes conscious choices that are bad for our survival as a species.


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If you want to become a fossil, you need to die somewhere where your bones will be rapidly buried. You then hope that the Earth moves in such a way as to bring the bones back up to the surface.

If you want to become a fossil, you need to die somewhere where your bones will be rapidly buried. You then hope that the Earth moves in such a way as to bring the bones back up to the surface.



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What is it that really makes us, us? It's our collective intelligence. It's our ability to write things down, our language and our consciousness.



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