PEOPLE OF THE LAKE by Richard E. Leakey and Roger Lewin Anchor Press/Doubleday; 298pages; $10.95
Everyone has his own idea of how man became man, and of what life was like among the creatures, no longer apes but not yet human, who inhabited the earth more than a million years ago. In 2001, science fiction writer Arthur Clarke presented ape men who evolved, in part, by murdering those of their neighbors who had not yet learned to use clubs. Cartoonists gave us Fred Flintstone and his pet dinosaurs. The epic movie One Million B.C....
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