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The sediments of time : my lifelong search for the past

2020

Format:	Book
Author:	Leakey, Meave G., author.
Title:	The sediments of time : my lifelong search for the past / Meave Leakey with Samira Leakey.
Publisher, Date:	Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020. ©2020
Description:	xii, 388 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), map, ; 24 cm
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.
Subjects:	Leakey, Meave G. Paleoanthropologists -- Great Britain -- Biography. Women anthropologists -- Great Britain -- Biography. Paleoanthropology -- History.
Genre:	Autobiographies.
Other Author:	Leakey, Samira, author.
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-374) and index.
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 ice house -- The first explorers -- A very good Hominin -- Through thick and thin -- Migrating mutants.
LCCN:	2019050624
ISBN:	0358206677 9780358206675 * 9780358171911 9780358308942 0358308941 9780358311799 0358311799 9780358206675
Other Number:	1105148486
System Availability:	1
Current Holds:	0
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Control Number:	879810
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Call Number:	BIO Leakey

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