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The Leakeys : a biography
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A biography of three generations of the Leakey family of paleo-anthropologists recounts the personal lives of the Leakeys and describes their discoveries, publications, and impact on our understand...
A biography of three generations of the Leakey family of paleo-anthropologists recounts the personal lives of the Leakeys and describes their discoveries, publications, and impact on our understanding of human origins and evolution.
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- Creator
- Mary Bowman-Kruhm
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- English
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- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2005
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- xvi, 150 pages ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 0313329850, 9780313329852
- OCLC
- ocm60559958
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [135]-141) and index.
- Timeline: Significant events in the lives of the Leakeys -- A fact-finding mission (forward to the past) -- In the beginning ... (Louis, 1925-1933) -- Positive choices, negative voices (Mary, 1913-1936; Louis, 1933-1936) -- War and children : real time (1937-1946) -- Peace and turmoil, personal and political (1947-1958) -- Human history carved in bone (1959-1971) -- Skull drudgery and skullduggery (1972-1977) -- Contentious, contention, and a critical condition (1978-1988) -- Burning his tusks behind him (1989-2003) -- But wait, there's more (2004 and beyond)
Subjects
- Leakey, L. S. B. (Louis Seymour Bazett), 1903-1972.
- Leakey, Mary D. (Mary Douglas), 1913-1996.
- Leakey, Richard E.
- Paleoanthropologists -- Tanzania -- Olduvai Gorge -- Biography.
- Physical anthropologists -- Tanzania -- Olduvai Gorge -- Antiquities.
- Stone age -- Tanzania -- Olduvai Gorge.
- Fossil hominids -- Tanzania -- Olduvai Gorge.
- Anthropology, Physical -- Kenya -- biography.
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- Anthropology, Physical -- Kenya -- biography.
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- Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania) -- Antiquities.