What do you think the next 50 years are going to hold for the Leakey family and paleoanthropology?
I think they are quite separate issues. Who knows what will happen to the Leakey family, my daughter is in paleoanthropology and vertebrate paleontology, Louise, but what she does with her career, time will tell. She is interested to see the work continue at least in the Turkana area. I think you are going to see a convergence of information from molecular biologists and geneticists tying into the fossil record. I think you are going to get a lot more information out of the fossils using new techniques that can interpret what the shapes and sizes lumps and bumps actually mean. I think you are probably going to be able to extract a lot more information by techniques that weren’t available 20, 30 years ago. Many more fossils will be found, and new sites will be found. I think within 50 years we will certainly know what Paranthropus was and whether it was significantly different in South Africa and East Africa. What H. habilis was and what its ancestors were. Of course, the big question i
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