“Heritage” by Louis Jenkins from In the Sun Out of the Wind. © Will o’ the Wisp Books, 2017. ORIGINAL TEXT AND AUDIO - 2017 Today is the birthday of anthropologist and archeologist Louis Leakey, born in Kabete, Kenya (1903). His parents were Anglican missionaries to Africa, and he lived in Kenya until he was 16. He studied anthropology at Cambridge at a time when most anthropologists believed that human beings had originated in Asia. But Leakey had read Darwin's theory that human beings might have originated in Africa, because Africa is the home of our closest relatives: chimpanzees and gorillas. As soon as he graduated from Cambridge, he moved back to Africa to prove Darwin right.
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Happy birthday to the man
An English major with a plan
To broadcast pomes
Into the homes
Of ev-e-ry Ameri-can 🇺🇸