num_pages: 416
description: 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.
language: English
title: Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind
titlecomplete: Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind
genres: History, Palaeontology, Biology, Africa, Science, Natural History, Archaeology, Nonfiction, Evolution, Anthropology
ratings_count: 2743
awards: awardedAt: 378720000000
name: National Book Award
category: Science (Hardcover)
publisher: Simon & Schuster