The sediments of time : my lifelong search for the past
Title:
The sediments of time : my lifelong search for the past
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ISBN:
9780358206675
Physical Description:
xii, 388 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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? -- Early homo : a horrible muddle -- Becoming grandmas -- Growing brains -- The icehouse -- The first explorers -- A very good Hominin -- Through thick and thin -- Migrating mutants.
Summary:
"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.
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