The sediments of time : my lifelong search for the past / Meave Leakey with Samira Leakey.
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TextPublisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Description: xii, 388 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 24 cmISBN: - 9780358206675
| Item type | Current library | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Howard City Library Adult Non-Fiction | Howard City Library | Adult Books | 599.9 Leakey (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34314000104948 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-374) and index.
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? -- Early homo : a horrible muddle -- Becoming grandmas -- Growing brains -- The icehouse -- The first explorers -- A very good Hominin -- Through thick and thin -- Migrating mutants.
"Meave Leakey's ... 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"--
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