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Author:

Leakey, Meave G., author.

Title:

The sediments of time : my lifelong search for the past / Meave Leakey with Samira Leakey.

Publisher:

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

xii, 388 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 24 cm

Subject:

Leakey, Meave G.
Paleoanthropologists--Great Britain--Biography.
Women anthropologists--Great Britain--Biography.
Paleoanthropology--History.
Autobiographies.

Other Authors:

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.

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.

ISBN:

0358311799
9780358311799
0358308941
9780358308942
0358206677
9780358206675

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1105148486

LCCN:

2019050624

Locations:

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

ETPD745 -- Emmetsburg Public Library (Emmetsburg)

ALPE516 -- Fairfield Public Library (Fairfield)

XHPD657 -- Glenwood Public Library (Glenwood)

SFPH074 -- Waterloo Public Library (Waterloo)