Richard Leakey Quote

Humans become human through intense learning not just of survival skills but of customs and social mores, kinship and social laws-that is, culture.


Origins Reconsidered: In Search of what Makes Us Human (ed. Doubleday Books, 1992)


Humans become human through intense learning not just of survival skills but of customs and social mores, kinship and social laws-that is, culture.

Humans become human through intense learning not just of survival skills but of customs and social mores, kinship and social laws-that is, culture.

Humans become human through intense learning not just of survival skills but of customs and social mores, kinship and social laws-that is, culture.

Humans become human through intense learning not just of survival skills but of customs and social mores, kinship and social laws-that is, culture.