The Sediments of Time
My Lifelong Search for the Past
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020.
Format: Book
Description: xii, 388 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
"Meave Leakey's thrilling, high-stakes memoir-written with her daughter Samira-encapsulates her distinguished life and career on the front lines of the hunt for our human origins, a quest made all the more notable by her stature as a woman in a highly competitive, male-dominated field"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Beginnings -- A change in track -- Racing against the clock -- Changing of the guard -- Water, water everywhere -- A brave new world -- Nine lives -- A new early biped -- Another piece of the puzzle -- Open-country survivors -- A friend for Lucy? -- Earlyhomo : a horrible muddle -- Becoming grandmas -- Growing brains -- The icehouse -- The first explorers -- A very good Hominin -- Through thick and thin -- Migrating mutants.
Subjects:
Leakey, Meave G.
Paleoanthropologists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Women anthropologists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Paleoanthropology -- History.
Leakey, Meave G.
Paleoanthropologists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Women anthropologists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Paleoanthropology -- History.
ISBN:
0358206677
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BIOGRAPHY Leaky, Meave G. | North Main | Biography | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-374) and index.