"Lucy is a 3.2-million-year-old skeleton who has become the
spokeswoman for human evolution. She is perhaps the best known and
most studied fossil hominid of the twentieth century, the benchmark
by which other discoveries of human ancestors are judged.""-"From
"Lucy's Legacy
"
In his "New York Times" bestseller, "Lucy: The Beginnings of
Humankind, " renowned paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson told the
incredible story of his discovery of a partial female skeleton that
revolutionized the study of human origins. Lucy literally changed
our understanding of our world and who we come from. Since that
dramatic find in 1974, there has been heated debate and-most
important-more groundbreaking discoveries that have further
transformed our understanding of when and how humans evolved.
In "Lucy's Legacy," Johanson takes readers on a fascinating tour of
the last three decades of study-the most exciting period of
paleoanthropologic investigation thus far. In that time, Johanson
and his colleagues have uncovered a total of 363 specimens of
Australopithecus afarensis (Lucy's species, a transitional creature
between apes and humans), spanning 400,000 years. As a result, we
now have a unique fossil record of one branch of our family
tree-that family being humanity-a tree that is believed to date
back a staggering 7 million years.
Focusing on dramatic new fossil finds and breakthrough advances in
DNA research, Johanson provides the latest answers that post-Lucy
paleoanthropologists are finding to questions such as: How did Homo
sapiens evolve? When and where did our species originate? What
separates hominids from the apes? What was the nature of Neandertal
and modern human encounters? What mysteries about human evolution
remain to be solved?
Donald Johanson is a passionate guide on an extraordinary journey
from the ancient landscape of Hadar, Ethiopia-where Lucy was
unearthed and where many other exciting fossil discoveries have
since been made-to a seaside cave in South Africa that once
sheltered early members of our own species, and many other
significant sites. Thirty-five years after Lucy, Johanson continues
to enthusiastically probe the origins of our species and what it
means to be human.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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