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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
- ISBN: 0358206677
- ISBN: 9780358308942
- ISBN: 0358308941
- ISBN: 9780358311799
- ISBN: 0358311799
- Physical Description: xii, 388 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020.
- Copyright: ©2020
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-374) 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 icehouse -- 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. |
Available copies
- 2 of 2 copies available at Lehigh Carbon Library Cooperative. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Emmaus Public Library.
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- 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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