Lucy's Legacy: The Quest for Human Origins by Dr. Donald Johanson; Kate Wong

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ISBN
9780307396396

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Publisher
Crown Publishing Group, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
0307396398
ISBN-13
9780307396396
eBay Product ID (ePID)
69607392

Product Key Features

Book Title
Lucy's Legacy : the Quest for Human Origins
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2009
Topic
Paleontology
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Science
Author
Donald C. Johanson, Donald Johanson, Kate Wong
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
20 oz
Item Length
9.4 in
Item Width
6.3 in

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Trade
LCCN
2010-483830
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
Praise for Donald C. Johanson Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind "A fascinating, candid, and scientifically reliable account of one of the most compelling scientific investigations ever undertakenthe effort to understand how human beings evolved." -New York Times "A glorious success . . . The science manages to be as exciting and spellbinding as the juiciest gossip." -San Francisco Chronicle "A riveting real-life saga of scientific detection." -Cosmopolitan "Johanson is doing for the earth what Carl Sagan has done for the cosmos." -Cleveland Plain Dealer Lucy's Child "Superb adventure . . . Lucy's Child burns with the infectious excitement of hominid feverthe tedium and doubting, and the ultimate triumph of an expedition that unearths something wonderful about the origins of humanity." -Peter Gorner, Chicago Tribune "An exciting, fast-moving, nuts-and-bolts narrative." -Marvin Harris, Washington Post Book World "An authoritative and gripping account . . . brilliant . . . an up-to-date, eloquent story of human evolution." -John Pfeiffer, author ofThe Emergence of Humankind From Lucy to Language "A concise and authoritative summary of research techniques and strategies." -New York Times Book Review From the Hardcover edition., "Very engaging, thanks perhaps to popular scientific journalist Wong, [LUCY'S LEGACY] communicates the poignancy of Johanson's occasionally nerve-wracking return to the birthplace of his career with something of the verve and suspense of an Indiana Jones movie. Hooked by that adventurous beginning, and introduced to many of the figures whose work preoccupies what follows, many will continue with the book's real meat, which implicatively but not literally argues that far from there being no missing link between apes and humans, there are several, complicatedly related, with more being found and likely to be found in the foreseeable future." Booklist(starred review) Praise for Donald C. Johanson Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind "A fascinating, candid, and scientifically reliable account of one of the most compelling scientific investigations ever undertakenthe effort to understand how human beings evolved." -New York Times "A glorious success . . . The science manages to be as exciting and spellbinding as the juiciest gossip." -San Francisco Chronicle "A riveting real-life saga of scientific detection." -Cosmopolitan "Johanson is doing for the earth what Carl Sagan has done for the cosmos." -Cleveland Plain Dealer Lucy's Child "Superb adventure . . . Lucy's Child burns with the infectious excitement of hominid feverthe tedium and doubting, and the ultimate triumph of an expedition that unearths something wonderful about the origins of humanity." -Peter Gorner, Chicago Tribune "An exciting, fast-moving, nuts-and-bolts narrative." -Marvin Harris, Washington Post Book World "An authoritative and gripping account . . . brilliant . . . an up-to-date, eloquent story of human evolution." -John Pfeiffer, author ofThe Emergence of Humankind From Lucy to Language "A concise and authoritative summary of research techniques and strategies." -New York Times Book Review From the Hardcover edition.
Dewey Decimal
569.9
Synopsis
"Lucy is a 3.2-million-year-old skeleton who has become the spokeswoman for human evolution. She is perhaps the best known and most studied fossil hominid of the twentieth century, the benchmark by which other discoveries of human ancestors are judged." From Lucy's Legacy In his New York Times bestseller, Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind, renowned paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson told the incredible 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 andmost importantmore 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 studythe 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 treethat family being humanitya tree that is believed to date back a staggering 7 million years. Focusing on dramatic 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? Donald Johanson is a passionate guide on an extraordinary journey from the ancient landscape of Hadar, Ethiopiawhere Lucy was unearthed and where many other exciting fossil discoveries have since been madeto a seaside cave in South Africa that once sheltered early members of our own species, and many other significant sites. Thirty-five years after Lucy, Johanson continues to enthusiastically probe the origins of our species and what it means to be human.
LC Classification Number
GN283.25.J64 2009

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