The Sediments of Time: My Lifelong Search for the Past

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By Meave Leakey and Samira Leakey *99

Published June 23, 2020

In this memoir, Samira Leakey *99 joins forces with her mother, Meave Leakey, to write the story of Meave’s career as a renowned paleoanthropologist, weaving the striking tale of her adventure-ridden life with an informative account of human evolution, newly re-examined due to her fossil findings.

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