Whether or not all this came to pass in an East African ditch, I wouldn't like to say. Perhaps it happened in North Africa or further west, but Africa was definitely the place.

It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya, which is populated chiefly by migrant nomads.

When out fossil hunting, it is very easy to forget that rather than telling you how the creatures lived, the remains you find indicate only where they became fossilized.

Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance.

The problem of the apes is not a shortage of money, it is a shortage of strategy. Let us devote our minds... the one thing we have more of than other apes... and let's secure their future.

Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with. It is a life-long task.

In the area of species protection, we should concern ourselves with what is right as opposed to what might be easier, or popular in the short term.