Bones of Turkana follows the story of famed paleoanthropologist Richard Leakery, his wife Meave, his daughter Louise and their colleagues as they work in the arid northern regions of Kenya's Turkana basin to unravel the mysteries of human evolution. While one of the Leakeys' goals is to demonstrate the complexity and truth of human evolution, they also seek to show how the qualities that we proudly call human were all born in Africa.