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Archaeologists often divide things into three stages, usually 'lower', 'middle' and upper' if they are thinking stratigraphically. Afterwards, of course, they argue that the whole thing was continuous anyhow and that the divisions are arbitrary and for convenience only.

Mary Leakey

There is so much we do not know, and the more we do know, the more we realize that early interpretations were completely wrong. It is good mental exercise, but people get so hot and nasty about it, which I think is ridiculous.

Mary Leakey

You know, you only find what you are looking for, really, if the truth be known.

Mary Leakey

Man's early tools and any insights we can get into the lifestyles and activities in succeeding stages of human evolution have been the aspects of the past that I have found the most absorbing, more so than the anatomical features linking or separating one fossil hominoid from another.

Mary Leakey

Fortunately, there is so much underground still. It is a vast place, and there is plenty more under the surface for future generations that are better educated.

Mary Leakey

Mary Leakey

Mary Leakey

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Born: February 6, 1913

Died: December 9, 1996 (aged 83)

Bio: Mary Leakey, FBA was a British paleoanthropologist who discovered the first fossilised Proconsul skull, an extinct ape which is now believed to be ancestral to humans. She also discovered the robust Zinjanthropus skull at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, eastern Africa.

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