by Richard Leakey · RBA Editores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788447302079
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«La formación de la humanidad» is Richard Leakey's popular science essay, published by RBA Editores in hardcover (269 pages, in Spanish).
In this popular science work, Richard Leakey recounts the scientific search for human origins: he reconstructs the history of the paleoanthropologists who tried to find the missing links and the long path of our ancestors from the first hominids to culture and civilization.
Translation and adaptation by Montserrat Domingo de Miró. Volume 4 of RBA's Biblioteca de Divulgación Científica collection, with black-and-white illustrations.
Recommended for readers interested in paleoanthropology, human evolution and popular science.
Richard Erskine Frere Leakey was a Kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist and politician. Leakey held a number of official positions in Kenya, mostly in institutions of archaeology and wildlife conservation. He was director of the National Museum of Kenya, founded the NGO WildlifeDirect, and was the chairman of the Kenya Wildlife Service. Leakey served in the powerful office of cabinet secretary and head of public service during the tail end of President Daniel Toroitich Arap Moi's government.
