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

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    • Abstract:
      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.
    • Content Notes:
      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.
    • Notes:
      Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-374) and index.
      1 14 20 21 22
    • ISBN:
      9780358206675
    • Accession Number:
      2019050624
    • Accession Number:
      ccp.1102393