ORIGINS: UNEARTHING THE PAST, UNDERSTANDING THE PRESENT
by Mabel Armstrong

Table of Contents
Part One: The Restless Earth 
Chapter One: Early Earth Science
     Florence Bascom 
Chapter Two:Earth, Sea, Sky and Beyond 
     Marie Tharp: Plate Tectonics
     Joanne Simpson: Meterology
     Bonnie Blackwell: Geochronology 

Part Two: Digging Up Our Past 
Chapter Three: Three-foot Horses, Thirty-foot Dinosaurs
     Mary Anning: The First Fossils
     Martine de Beausoleil
     Carlotta Joaquina Maury
     Tilly Edinger 
Chapter Four: Fossil Diggers Find the Mothers of Us All
     Mary Leaky
     Dorothy Garrod

Part Three: Clues From Ancient Ancestors
Chapter Five: Primatology: What Does Primate Behavior Tell Us?
     Barbara Smuts: Babboons in the Veldt
     Birute Galdikas:  Orangutans in Borneo
Chapter Six: When Did We Stand Up, Why Did We Stand Up?
     Adrienne Zihlman: Clues From Primate Anatomy
Chapter Seven: Archeology: Digging Out Human Culture
     Alihan Yerner
     Harriet Boyd Hawes
     Betty Goldman
     Gisella Marie Augusta Richter 

Part Four: Twenty-First Century Careers
Chapter Eight: Sleuthing for Science—And For Justice—Forensics
     Ella Cara Delonia
     Sharon Bennet
     Justine Shaw

Forensic seismology

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