The sediments of time : my lifelong search for the past /
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 (pages 351-374) 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"--
0358206677 9780358206675
2019050624
Leakey, Meave G.
Paleoanthropologists--Great Britain--Biography.
Women anthropologists--Great Britain--Biography.
Paleoanthropology--History.
Autobiographies.
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 (pages 351-374) 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"--
0358206677 9780358206675
2019050624
Leakey, Meave G.
Paleoanthropologists--Great Britain--Biography.
Women anthropologists--Great Britain--Biography.
Paleoanthropology--History.
Autobiographies.