re: Missouri Bill Would Warn Parents of Evolution Boogeyman

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He said in 1983 that Lucy's skull is so incomplete that most of it is imagination made offend plaster paris, and that no firm conclusion could be drawn about what species Lucy belonged to.

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I've talked with Richard Leakey. His father happens to be a scientist I idolized as a kid. I would be stunned if your attribution remotely represents any statement Richard Leakey ever made, or intended to make.

One of the things that fascinated me when I got to see some of Louis Leakey's discoveries, is what an accurate picture he and his team developed from the fragments they found. Make no mistake, based on subsequent findings, his extrapolations were dead on, as were those pertaining to Lucy. Some iteration of that is likely what RL was acknowledging.

No doubt though, Richard Leakey is a man confident enough in his work, that he is willing to acknowledge what he doesn't know, e.g., exact path to sapiens. Itis the same approach to science I advocate here.