02793cam a2200325 i 4500 441315297 TxAuBib 20201208120000.0 200314s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019050624 9780358206675 HRD 30.00 0358206677 HRD 30.00 TxAuBib rda Leakey, Meave G. The Sediments of time [BOOK] : my lifelong search for the past / Meave Leakey with Samira Leakey. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020. xii, 388 pages, [8] unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references 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? -- Earlyhomo : a horrible muddle -- Becoming grandmas -- Growing brains -- The ice house -- The first explorers -- A very good Hominin -- Through thick and thin -- Migrating mutants. In The Sediments of Time, preeminent paleoanthropologist Meave Leakey brings us along on her remarkable journey to reveal the diversity of our early pre-human ancestors and how past climate change drove their evolution. She offers a fresh account of our past, as recent breakthroughs have allowed new analysis of her team’s fossil findings and vastly expanded our understanding of our ancestors. Meave’s own personal story is replete with drama, from thrilling discoveries on the shores of Lake Turkana to run-ins with armed herders and every manner of wildlife, to raising her children and supporting her renowned paleoanthropologist husband Richard Leakey’s ambitions amidst social and political strife in Kenya. When Richard needs a kidney, Meave provides him with hers, and when he asks her to assume the reins of their field expeditions after he loses both legs in a plane crash, the result of likely sabotage, Meave steps in. The Sediments of Time is the summation of a lifetime of Meave Leakey’s efforts; it is a compelling picture of our human origins and climate change, as well as a high-stakes story of ambition, struggle, and hope. Provided by publisher. 20201208. Leakey, Meave G. Paleoanthropologists Great Britain Biography. Women anthropologists Great Britain Biography. Paleoanthropology History. Leakey, Samira, author.