Bibliograph

The sediments of time, my lifelong search for the past, Meave Leakey with Samira Leakey

Type

Label

The sediments of time, my lifelong search for the past, Meave Leakey with Samira Leakey

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The sediments of time

Nature of contents

dictionariesbibliography

Oclc number

1149325355

Responsibility statement

Meave Leakey with Samira Leakey

Sub title

my lifelong search for the past

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

Table Of 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

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