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Author Leakey, Meave G., author.

Title The sediments of time : my lifelong search for the past / Meave Leakey with Samira Leakey.

Publication Info. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020.
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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY LEAKEY    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  BIO LEAKEY    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  BIOGRAPHY LEAKEY    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Biographies  B LEAKEY    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  599.9092 LEAKEY    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  599.9092 LEAKEY    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - NEW Adult Nonfiction  599.9 LEA    Missing
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  92 LEAKEY, MEA    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Biographies  B LEAKEY MEAVE L    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Biographies  BIOG LEAVEY MEAVE    Check Shelf
Description xii, 388 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-374) and index.
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 icehouse -- The first explorers -- A very good Hominin -- Through thick and thin -- Migrating mutants.
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.
Subject Leakey, Meave G.
Paleoanthropologists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Women anthropologists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Paleoanthropology -- History.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology.
Leakey, Meave G. (OCoLC)fst00020623
Paleoanthropologists. (OCoLC)fst01051316
Paleoanthropology. (OCoLC)fst01051317
Women anthropologists. (OCoLC)fst01177129
Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
Genre/Form Autobiographies.
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author Leakey, Samira, author.
Added Title My lifelong search for the past
Other Form: Online version: Meave, Meave G. Sediments of time Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020 9780358171911 (DLC) 2019050625
ISBN 0358206677 (hardcover)
9780358206675 (hardcover)
9780358171911 (ebook)
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