From Lucy to Language: Revised, Updated, and Expanded
Since the original edition was published in 1996, paleoanthropologists have made several important finds. Among them are Sahelanthropus tchadensis, a seven-million-year-old specimen uncovered in Chad that has features that are part ape, part hominid, and Homo floresiensis, diminutive people who apparently were not Homo sapiens and who lived on the Indonesian island of Flores as recently as 13,000 years ago. Johanson, director of the Institute of Human Origins and best known for his discovery of the "Lucy" skeleton, and Edgar, a writer and an editor at the University of California Press, present other new finds and add updates throughout the book. With more spectacular photographs by David Brill, most of them depicting specimens at actual size, the new tome is even more awe-inspiring than the earlier version.Editors of Scientific American