Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Human

'Origins Reconsidered' is Richard Leakey's personal account of his fossil hunting and landmark discoveries at Lake Turkana, his reassessment of human prehistory based on new evidence and analytical techniques, and his profound pondering of how we became human - and what, after all, 'human' really means.

In 1984, at Lake Turkana, Leakey and his 'Hominid Gang' of fossil hunters discovered the skeleton of a young boy - a boy who died over a million and a half years ago. Dubbed 'the Turkana Boy', it was recognized as one of the most significant paleoanthropological discoveries ever made.

But Leakey himself was still restless. For him, the most fascinating question was no longer 'How did we physically evolve?' but 'How did we become human and what does "human" really mean?'