Written by Associated Press via Washington Post - (hat tip Floyd whose daughter, Dr. Rebecca Ackermann, is a professor in the department of archaeology at the University of Cape Town, a former Leakey Scholar.)
Paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey predicts end is near on debate over evolution
... “If you look back, the thing that strikes you, if you’ve got any sensitivity, is that extinction is the most common phenomena,” Leakey says. “Extinction is always driven by environmental change. Environmental change is always driven by climate change. Man accelerated, if not created, planet change phenomena; I think we have to recognize that the future is by no means a very rosy one.”
Any hope for mankind’s future, he insists, rests on accepting existing scientific evidence of its past....
