| Description |
xii, 388 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part I. Beginnings ; A change in track ; Racing against the clock ; Changing of the guard -- Part II. 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 -- Part III. Becoming grandmas ; Growing brains ; The ice house ; The first explorers ; A very good Hominin ; Through thick and thin ; Migrating mutants -- Epilogue. |
| 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.
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| Subject(S) |
Paleoanthropologists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Women anthropologists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Paleoanthropology -- History.
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Autobiographies.
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| Added Name(S) |
Leakey, Samira, author.
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| ISBN |
9780358206675 (hardcover) |
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0358206677 (hardcover) |
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