One Has To Take Initiative In Life

As An Undergraduate, I Had An Opportunity To Go On A Number Of Archeological Digs. So I Had Experience Excavating, Digging Up Remains Of Ancient Indian Villages In The Midwest And In The Southwest.

And What I Wanted To Do Was, I Wanted To Explore Problems And Areas Where We Didn't Have Answers. In Fact, Where We Didn't Even Know The Right Questions To Ask.

When The First Fossils Began To Be Found In Eastern Africa, In The Late 1950s, I Thought, What A Wonderful Marriage This Was, Biology And Anthropology. I Was Around 16 Years Old When I Made This Particular Choice Of Academic Pursuit.

But What Really Excited Me Was The Idea That Humans Had A Tremendous Pre-history That Went Back Millions Of Years. I Wanted To Go To Africa To Find Some Of These Creatures.

Evolution Explains Our Biological Evolution, But Human Beings Are Very Unique Creatures. As The Dobzhansky Said, All Animals Are Unique; Humans Are The Uniquest. And That Uniqueness Of Being Human, Language, Art, Culture, Our Dependency On Culture For Survival, Comes From The Combination Of Traditional Biological Evolution.