Richard Leakey Chapter Summary

The chapter begins with Richard Leakey telling the reader that one of the most (challenging periods) in his life, was when he became the director of the Wildlife Conservation and Management Department.

He tells the reader that he unknowingly prepared himself for his future career as a paleoanthropologist when he was younger when he started labeling and numbering the skeleton bones belonging to the animals he had caught.

Leakey stated issues such as elephant poaching and the increase of human population and viewed it through a (perspective of constant change) to show how one should react to these growing issues occurring on Earth.

He offered a (unique view) in this book because he used his experience ((as paleontologist and conservationist.))