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Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind,
Maitland Edey & Donald Johanson When
Donald Johanson found a partial skeleton more than 3 million years
old in a remote region of Ethiopia in 1974, a headline-making event
was launched that continues to reverberate to this day.
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," one of the oldest and most
complete hominid skeletons ever found. By expounding on 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. Softcover,
416 pages, 6 1/4 x 9 1/4".
0-671-72499-1
Lucy $17.00
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