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02503aam a2200349Ii 4500 001 412D1A80868F11E988B41FF596128E48 003 SILO 005 20190604010217 008 181022t20192019nyua 000 0 eng d 010 $a 2018960907 020 $a 9781948122375 020 $a 1948122375 035 $a (OCoLC)1057376386 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d NZLEP $d GK6 $d JNE $d MIBLS $d SILO 100 1 $a Linden, Eugene, $e author. 245 10 $a Deep Past / $c Eugene Linden. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b RosettaBooks, $c 2019. 300 $a 330 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "If nature could invent intelligence of our scale in a blink of geologic time, who's to say it hasn't been done before... A routine dig in Kazakhstan takes a radical turn for thirty-two-year-old anthropologist Claire Knowland when a stranger turns up at the site with a bizarre find from a remote section of the desolate Kazakh Steppe. Her initial skepticism of this mysterious discovery gives way to a realization that the find will shake the very foundations of our understanding of evolution and intelligence. Corrupt politics of Kazakhstan force Claire to take reckless chances with the discovery. Among the allies she gathers in her fight to save herself and bring the discovery to light is Sergei Anachev, a brilliant but enigmatic Russian geologist who becomes her unlikely protector even as he deals with his own unknown crisis. Ultimately, Claire finds herself fighting not just for the discovery and her academic reputation, but for her very life as great power conflict engulfs the unstable region and an unscrupulous oligarch attempts to take advantage of the chaos. Drawing on Eugene Linden's celebrated non-fiction investigations into what makes humans different from other species, this international thriller mixes fact and the fantastical, the realities of academic politics, and high stakes geopolitics--engaging the reader every step of the way."-- Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Anthropologists $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Geologists $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Evolution $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Political violence $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Kazakhstan $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Thrillers (Fiction) $2 lcgft 941 $a 3 952 $l GEPG771 $d 20210722061320.0 952 $l GFPE771 $d 20200806013146.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20190810012626.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=412D1A80868F11E988B41FF596128E48 994 $a C0 $b C@VInitiate Another SILO Locator Search