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The Beginnings of Humankind
出版Simon and Schuster, 1990-09-15
主題Nature / FossilsScience / HistoryScience / Life Sciences / Human Anatomy & PhysiologyScience / PaleontologyScience / Life Sciences / Anatomy & PhysiologySocial Science / Anthropology / GeneralSocial Science / Anthropology / PhysicalSocial Science / Sociology / General
ISBN06717249919780671724993
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=HgGNlFMM5XQC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋“A glorious success…The science manages to be as exciting and spellbinding as the juiciest gossip” (San Franscisco Chronicle) in the story of the discovery of “Lucy”—the oldest, best-preserved skeleton of any erect-walking human ancestor ever found.

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.