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The Survivor And The Future

John Cornwell THE SIXTH EXTINCTION: BIODIVERSITY AND ITS SURVIVAL by Richard Leakey and Roger Lewin Weidenfeld, £18.99, pp. 288 O ne of the great themes that loom over most......

A Family And The Past

Nicholas Harman ANCESTRAL PASSIONS by Virginia Morell Simon & Schuster, £20, pp. 638 T he index lists 27 Leakeys, the Leakey Foundation for Research Related to Man's Origin,......