Richard Leakey gives a talk at Duke University Oct 22

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Humankind: Past, Present, and Future

Richard Leakey is a famous paleoanthropologist and wildlife conservationist in Africa. He is the son of famed Louis Leakey who was the one who came up with the theory that humans evolved in Africa.

Video

https://nasher.capture.duke.edu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=7f34d69d-f6a0-4f8d-b15d-aaee0148c7d4

The most interesting thing he said, I found, was that everyone is worried about the elephants and the rhinos and the hedgehogs, but it is humans that will likely go extinct first because of climate change. And Africa is drying up.



https://igs.duke.edu/events/humankind-past-present-and-future