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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 and–most important–more 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 study–the 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 uniqu

Who reads Lucy's Legacy : the Quest for Human Origins?

Author

Dr. Donald Johanson, Kate Wong

Publisher

Broadway Books

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307396396

Category

science

Subjects

Anthropology, Fiction, World History

Rating

3.96 / 5 (242 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13