Lucy, the Beginning of Mankind by Donald C Johanson

Lucy, the Beginning of Mankind by Donald C Johanson

A glorious success.The science manages to be as exciting and spellbinding as the juiciest gossip (San Franscisco Chronicle) in the story of the discovery of Lucy--the oldest, best-preserved skeleton of any erect-walking human ancestor ever found.

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 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.

For more than two decades, Donald Johanson has been exploring East Africa's Great Rift Valley in search of clues to our ultimate beginnings. He is the author of five prior books, the host of the three-part Nova series In Search of Human Origins, and continues to lecture on a regular basis. He is the founder and president of the Institute of Human Origins in Berkeley, California, where he lives, and is best known for his discovery of the Lucy skeleton.

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ISBN 13	9780446386258
ISBN 10	0446386251
Title	Lucy, the Beginning of Mankind
Author	Donald C Johanson
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Binding Type	Paperback
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Year published	1988-12-01
Number of pages	409
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