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Lucy's Legacy: The Quest for Human Origins

Donald C. Johanson
3.98/5 (321 ratings)
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"In his New York Times bestseller, Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind, paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson told the 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 7 million years." Focusing on 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?
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Lucy's Legacy: The Quest for Human Origins

Donald C. Johanson
3.98/5 (321 ratings)
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"In his New York Times bestseller, Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind, paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson told the 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 7 million years." Focusing on 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?
Format:
Pages:
pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Edition:
1st, First Edition
Language:
ISBN10:
0307396398
ISBN13:
9780307396396
kindle Asin:
B001UFP6QW

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