Author: Mary Bowman-Kruhm Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 0313062110 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 172
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Three generations of Leakeys have dug in East Africa for fossil evidence that answers questions about human origins. Louis and Mary, husband and wife, began what would turn into decades of research and fieldwork, often disproving common theories and beliefs of the time. Son Richard followed in his parents' foot steps, along with his wife Meave, and made spectacular finds as well. Today, Louise, the oldest daughter of Richard and Meave, continues the family tradition with fieldwork in northern Kenya. The Leakey family's achievements have had an enormous impact on our knowledge of human origins and evolution. This biography describes their life in detail, including their discoveries, publications, controversies, and legacy. A timeline, glossary, and bibliography of print and electronic sources supplement the material.
Author: Angela Timmons-Hanselka Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc ISBN: 1725342421 Category : Young Adult Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 80
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Known as the First Family of Paleontology, the Leakey family's fascinating archaeological and paleontological finds in Africa stunned the world and reset prevailing notions about human evolution. Featuring captivating text accompanied by striking images, this book explores the Leakey family's incredible journey from their early-twentieth-century discoveries to the work of their modern-day foundation. It helps learners understand the importance of scientific collaboration. A timeline of significant scientific events and Leakey finds will help learners grasp how valuable the Leakey legacy is. Informative sidebars will draw the readers' eyes toward some of the most interesting archaeological discoveries made by the Leakey family.
Author: Virginia Morell Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1439143870 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 644
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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.
Author: Meave Leakey Publisher: Houghton Mifflin ISBN: 0358206677 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 413
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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.
Author: Mike Toms Publisher: HarperCollins UK ISBN: 0008164762 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 448
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Gardens make a significant contribution to the amount of urban green space and are the main contributors to urban biodiversity. Birds are one of the most visible components of this urban biodiversity, and many of us enjoy attracting wild birds into our gardens.
Author: Lieutenant Colonel George Forty OBE Publisher: The History Press ISBN: 180399133X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 240
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Major General Rea Leakey was one of the Royal Tank Regiment's greatest heroes of the Second World War. As a young tank commander, he fought Rommel's Afrika Korps in the Western Desert of Egypt, before becoming trapped for six months in the siege of Tobruk and temporarily joining the Australian infantry as an honorary Lance Corporal. He later returned to the European theatre in 1944 and served as a Churchill tank commander in Normandy, the Rhine and Germany. Despite it being strictly forbidden, Leakey kept a diary throughout his soldiering career. Based on this valuable account, Leakey's Luck documents Leakey's wartime service in its entirety, and offers a view of the war through the eyes of a man who was there at the 'sharp end'. Many of his exploits were hair-raising, some even too fantastic to believe. Incredibly, Leakey's luck held out throughout the war, and he remained in the British Army until retirement in 1968.
Author: Sonia Cole Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 486
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Profiles the flamboyant, tireless British anthropologist whose discoveries in Olduvai Gorge and other East African sites revolutionized theories of human evolution and who made major contributions in archaeology, paleontology, and zoology.
Author: Richard E. Leakey Publisher: Anchor ISBN: 0385467923 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 433
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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.
Author: Peter Marshall Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199532079 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 350
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In this remarkable piece of historical detective work, Peter Marshall sets out to discover the intriguing links between sightings of the ghost of an old woman in the small English coastal town of Minehead in the 1630s and the hanging of a disgraced Protestant bishop in Dublin several years later.
Author: Andi Diehn Publisher: Picture Book Biography ISBN: 9781619307735 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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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."--
Author: Mary Bowman-Kruhm
Author: Angela Timmons-Hanselka
Author: Virginia Morell
Author: Meave Leakey
Author: Mike Toms
Author: Lieutenant Colonel George Forty OBE
Author: Sonia Cole
Author: Richard E. Leakey
Author: Peter Marshall
Author: Andi Diehn