Lucy The Beginnings of Humankind Author:Donald C. Johanson When Donald Johanson found a partical skeleton, approximately 3.5 million years old, in a remote region of Ethiopia in 1974, a headline-making controversy was launched that continues on today. — Bursting with all the suspense and intrigue of a fast paced adventure novel, here is Johanson's lively account of the extraordinary discovery of &quo... more »t;Lucy." By expounding the controversial change Lucy makes in our view of human origins, Johanson provides a vivid, behind-the-scenes account of the history of pealeoanthropology and the colorful, eccentric characters who were and are a part of it.
Never before have the mystery and intricacy of our origins been so clearly and compellingly explained as in this astonighing and dramatic book.« less