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Lucy

The Beginnings of Humankind

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Lucy

Written by: Donald C. Johanson, Maitland Edey
Narrated by: Donald C. Johanson
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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 partial skeleton, approximately 3.5 million years old, in a remote region of Ethiopia in 1974, a headline-making controversy was launched that continues 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 paleoanthropology 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 astonishing and dramatic book.

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©1981 Donald C. Johanson and Maitland A. Edey (P)2019 Early Man Publishing Anthropology Biological Sciences Nature & Ecology Science
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