TY  - BOOK
AU  - Leakey,Meave G.
AU  - Leakey,Samira
TI  - The sediments of time: my lifelong search for the past 
SN  - 0358206677
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
KW  - Leakey, Meave G.
KW  - Paleoanthropologists
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Biography
KW  - Women anthropologists
KW  - Paleoanthropology
KW  - History
KW  - Autobiographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - 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
N2  - "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"--
ER  -