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      Hardcover Lucy's Legacy: The Quest for Human Origins Book
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      ISBN: 0307396398

      ISBN13: 9780307396396

      Lucy's Legacy: The Quest for Human Origins

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      "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.

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      Rated 5 stars
      A Pleasure

      By Thriftbooks.com User,

      A great read and a good primer for what has been discovered over the last few years. I just wish that Tim White had published his findings on Ardi before Don wrote this book. I would like to read his take on it. I was in college in the early 70's and I must say that just about every course I ever took could be taught the same way today. Basic Chemistry, Math, English, etc. will never change. However, the course I took...

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      Readable as a novel, scientific as a Doctoral Thesis

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      I was very pleased to read this book. The level of information is extraordinary, very precise and inviting to keep on reading. The book is structured according to the superb experience of the author. It is my opinion that students as well as professionals in the field, will delightfully enjoy this reading. It covers, with awsome details, one of the most important finds in human history. Lucy is an icon in modern anthropology,...

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      Suprised at my misconceptions!

      By Thriftbooks.com User,

      This book was a pleasant surprise. I enjoy reading about the sciences yet I had neglected a topic that has everything to do about me and us, from which all things human flow. This book is both a memoir and an informative update, but more, a reality check as this subject has been so badly misconstrued while rightly turned on its head by amazing new discoveries. Johanson's adventures are a good read and keep things exciting,...

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      Take a Trip Back to the Dawn of Humanity

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      Donald C. Johanson, author of //Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind//, and winner of the American Book Award, was also the founder of the Institute of Human Origins. His first book tells the tale of how in 1974, while walking back to his car along a barren stretch of Ethiopia, he spotted something bone-like in the ground. Lucy, better known as //Australopithecus afarensis//, became a great archaeological find of our times. ...

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      Rated 5 stars
      Fascinating, compelling, highly readable!!

      By Thriftbooks.com User,

      Once again, Dr. Johanson has written a book for those of us with a passion for human evolution, but not a PhD in it! Lucy's Legacy is an exciting, suspenseful, action-packed adventure that goes behind the scenes... here for the first time we learn what really happens before - and after - an important discovery is made. Some of it isn't pretty! Also includes up-to-date information about all the latest finds, amazing photographs,...

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