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Leakey, Meave G.,

The sediments of time : my lifelong search for the past / Meave Leakey with Samira Leakey. - xii, 388 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), map, 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references 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 ice house -- The first explorers -- A very good Hominin -- Through thick and thin -- Migrating mutants.

"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"--

ISBN: 9780358206675 9780358308942 9780358311799

LCCN: 2019050624

Subjects--Personal Names:
Leakey, Meave G.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Paleoanthropologists--Great Britain--Biography.
Women anthropologists--Great Britain--Biography.
Paleoanthropology--History.

LC Class. No.: GN50.6.L43 / L43 2020

Dewey Class. No.: 599.9092 B