Scientist Fights Church Effort to Hide Museum's Pre-Human Fossils

By Kendrick Frazier
posted: 03 December 2006
10:46 am ET

Famed paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey is giving no quarter to powerful evangelical church leaders who are pressing Kenya's national museum to relegate to a back room its world-famous collection of hominid fossils showing the evolution of humans' early ancestors.

Leakey called the churches' plans "the most outrageous comments I have ever heard."