It was almost thirty years ago that I read ‘Origins Reconsidered,’ a book by Richard Leakey primarily focused on his team’s discovery of the Turkana Boy, a homo erectus skeleton found in the shore of Lake Turkana, East Africa. I found that book perhaps more inspiring than any other thing I’ve read on human evolution, and over a two-month period I wrote an extensive collection of poems related to it. I’ve decided to offer it up here for free, in its entirety. The cover is something I put together about a year ago.

Some of these poems have been previously published (in Archaeopteryx, The Newman Journal of Ideas, 2014) but this is the first time for the complete text. Hope you enjoy it.

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