Natural selection operates according to immediate circumsta… - Richard Leakey

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Natural selection operates according to immediate circumstances and not toward a long-term goal. Homo sapiens did eventually evolve as a descendent of the first humans, but there was nothing inevitable about it.

Richard Leakey

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Richard Erskine Frere Leakey (19 December 1944 – 2 January 2022) was a Kenyan politician, paleoanthropologist and conservationist.

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Birth Name: Richard Erskine Frere Leakey

Alternative Names: Richard Erskine Leakey • R. E. F. Leakey • R. Leakey

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If the Darwinian package were correct, then we would expect to see the simultaneous appearance in the archeological and fossil records of evidence for bipedality, technology and increased brain size. We don't.

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