The sediments of time : my lifelong search for the past
by Leakey, Meave G. (Author), Leakey, Samira (Author)
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"-- Full description
- 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.