To save an animal's life in order that it may suffer indefinitely is something I would never condone.
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At Olduvai, for 20 years, Mary and I had investigated and made a general survey of the overall geology.
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There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating.
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Most Kikuyu marriages were arranged on the basis of what is described by anthropologists as the bride price.
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I kept an open mind on the question of whether a hominid had been present in Europe in the early Pleistocene.
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When my father arrived in Kenya, he had found the Kikuyu way of life similar to that of the British at the time the Romans invaded England 2,000 years ago.
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The majority of people in Angola were not provided with any kind of schooling and were completely illiterate, very badly paid, and treated almost as slaves.
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Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial service in Kenya.
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Sometime during the many millions of years that have elapsed since mammalian faunas came into existence, some sort of island crossed from West Africa to South America.
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I saw what looked like another fallen tree in front of me and put my foot on it to cross over. At that moment it reared up in front of me-the biggest python I had ever seen!
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