The most illuminating parts of The Sediments of Time recount the years Meave Leakey spent hunting for the fossilized remains of our species’ precursors.
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The most illuminating parts of The Sediments of Time recount the years Meave Leakey spent hunting for the fossilized remains of our species’ precursors.
Attentive readers of Meave Leakey’s masterful memoir, The Sediments of Time: My Lifelong Search for the Past, will learn a few details about her personal life. She was recruited by the great Louis Leakey for paleontological research in Africa in 1965, after sexism prevented her from working as a marine biologist. After completing her Ph.D.,…
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