Mary Leakey
Mary Leakey

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Publisher: Children's Press(CT)

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780531237274

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Without the backbreaking work of Mary Leakey and her family, the story of human evolution would still be a mystery. Join her on Africa's Serengeti, and see how her prehistoric discoveries shaped our understanding of humankind.

Fossil Huntress
Fossil Huntress

Author: Andi Diehn

Publisher: Picture Book Biography

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781619307735

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"What was the world like millions of years ago? Did early humans walk on all fours? Did giant sloths lie in trees? Did dinosaurs have feathers? Even as a young girl, Mary Leakey was fascinated by questions like these! In Fossil Huntress: Mary Leakey, Paleontologist, elementary aged children meet Mary as a girl growing up in France and visiting the site of archeological wonders, such as Pech Merle, Fond de Gaume, and La Mouthe. As an adult, Mary leaps at the chance to travel to Africa, where she spends much of her life working in the field in Tanzania, making discoveries that change the face of paleontology forever. True grit, passion, and high standards for scientific rigor made Mary a pioneer in the field of paleontology! Fossil Huntress is part of a set of four books in the Picture Book Biography series that introduces pioneers of science to young children."--

Ancestral Passions
Ancestral Passions

Author: Virginia Morell

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2011-01-11

Total Pages: 644

ISBN-13: 1439143870

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This biography of the "First Family" of anthropology reveals how their discoveries, collaborations, and rivalries contributed to our own knowledge of the origins of humankind. In this fascinating and authoritative work, acclaimed science writer Virginia Morell brings to vivid life the famous and infamous Leakey family, pioneers in the field of paleoanthropology: Louis Leakey, the patriarch, who persisted through initial scientific failures and scandal-ridden divorce to achieve spectacular success in digs throughout East Africa; Mary, his second wife, who worked alongside Louis as they made their outstanding discoveries at Olduvai Gorge and elsewhere; and Richard, their son, who ascended to the top of the field in his parents’ wake, only to be threatened with both near-fatal illness and fierce professional rivalry. Morell transports us into the world of these compelling personalities, demonstrating how a small clan of highly talented and fiercely competitive people came to dominate an entire field of science and to contribute immeasurably to our understanding of the origins of humanity.

The Sediments of Time
The Sediments of Time

Author: Meave Leakey

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 413

ISBN-13: 0358206677

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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.

Disclosing the Past
Disclosing the Past

Author: Mary Leakey

Publisher: G K Hall & Company

Published: 1985-01-01

Total Pages: 419

ISBN-13: 9780816139132

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The renowned anthropologist offers an incisive, inside look at her remarkable family and discusses her work with her husband in East Africa and their discoveries, which forever altered the course of modern anthropology

Origins Reconsidered
Origins Reconsidered

Author: Richard E. Leakey

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 1993-10-01

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 0385467923

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Richard Leakey's personal account of his fossil hunting and landmark discoveries at Lake Turkana, his reassessment of human prehistory based on new evidence and analytic techniques, and his profound pondering of how we became "human" and what being "human" really means.

The Origin Of Humankind
The Origin Of Humankind

Author: Richard Leakey

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2013-12-31

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 1780227671

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A meticulously clear account of how early ape-men of the African savanna developed into fully human beings. Leakey has always been interested in far more than the mere physical features presented by fossils, and here he is particularly concerned with non-tangible human attributes, such as art, language and consciousness itself. Leakey's personal involvement in many of the key discoveries of hominid fossils, and his friendships and rivalries with his fellow fossil hunters, add more than a dash of spice to his narrative. "An outstanding account of our current understanding of human evolution" Sunday Times "An elegant summary of what is currently known about human evolution" Observer