league’s brain “was remarkably good 
for its size.” 
Fossil hominids have always been 
the number-one glamour stock on the 
paleontological bourse, bringing their 
discoverers fame and fortune of a sort 
forever denied to those who study ex- 
tinct clams. It is no wonder that people 
who work on fossil hominids are no- 
torious for the intensity and bitchiness 
of their rivalries. Johanson and Edey’s 
book shows us some of these rivalries 
from Johanson’s point of view, and 
the descriptions of his antagonists are 
not flattering. Richard Leakey, for ex- 
ample, is introduced as an “obscure 
bushwhacker” who spurned a univer- 
sity education to become a white 
hunter and safari guide, stumbled 
across Koobi Fora in a snit while evad- 
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and barred Tim White from Koobi 
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1470 skull. Happily, Johanson can 
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new President’s bookshelf. 
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