num_pages: 639
description: An authoritative biography of the First Family of anthropology--Louis, Mary, and Richard Leakey--shows how they laid the foundations for what is known about the origins of man and reveals their jealousies and rivalries with one another. 30,000 first printing.
language: English
title: Ancestral Passions: The Leakey Family and the Quest for Humankind's Beginnings
titlecomplete: Ancestral Passions: The Leakey Family and the Quest for Humankind's Beginnings
genres: Anthropology, Palaeontology, Biography, Science, Nonfiction, Kenya, History, History Of Science, Africa
ratings_count: 117
publisher: Simon & Schuster