The sediments of time: my lifelong search for the past

✍ Scribed by Leakey, Meave G.;Leakey, Samira

• Publisher: HMH Books; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 1 MB
• Category: Fiction
• City: Great Britain.
• ISBN: 0358171911

✦ Synopsis

"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"--;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.

✦ Subjects

Great Britain