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The sediments of time : my lifelong search for the past / Meave Leakey, with Samira Leakey.
"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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780358206675 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: xii, 388 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), map ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
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| Subject: | Leakey, Meave G. Paleoanthropologists > Great Britain > Biography. Women anthropologists > Great Britain > Biography. Paleoanthropology > History. |
| Genre: | Autobiographies. Biographies. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Cookstown Branch | 599.9092 Leake | 31681010216067 | NONFIC | Available | - |
MEAVE LEAKEY coheads field efforts in northern Kenya seeking fossil records to the roots of humankind. She has worked at the National Museums of Kenya since 1969 and is research professor at Stony Brook University. SAMIRA LEAKEY has degrees from the University of London and Princeton University.
MEAVE LEAKEY coheads field efforts in northern Kenya seeking fossil records to the roots of humankind. She has worked at the National Museums of Kenya since 1969 and is research professor at Stony Brook University. SAMIRA LEAKEY has degrees from the University of London and Princeton University.
