The Sediments of Time: My Lifelong Search for the Past - Couverture rigide

Leakey, Meave; Leakey, Samira

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ISBN 10 : 0358206677 ISBN 13 : 9780358206675

Editeur : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020

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.

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—including the 3.5-million-year-old skull of Flat-faced Man of Kenya, representing an important new branch of the human family—to run-ins with armed herder tribesmen 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.

 

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

MEAVE LEAKEY coheads field efforts in northern Kenya seeking fossil records to the roots of humankind. She has worked at the National Museums of Kenya since 1969 and is research professor at Stony Brook University. SAMIRA LEAKEY has degrees from the University of London and Princeton University. 

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0358206677
• ISBN 13: 9780358206675
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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