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From Lucy to Language: Revised, Updated, and Expanded
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From Lucy to Language: Revised, Updated, and Expanded Hardcover - 2006

by Blake Edgar,Donald Johanson

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Now revised and updated, this groundbreaking volume by one of the world's foremost paleontologists presents the most complete visual proof ever assembled of the evidence for human evolution, displaying in full color all the key fossils and artifacts of human prehistory.

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  • Title From Lucy to Language: Revised, Updated, and Expanded
  • Author Blake Edgar,Donald Johanson
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Rev Upd
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Simon & Schuster, New York
  • Date October 2006
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 292489
  • ISBN 9780743280648 / 0743280644
  • Weight 4.48 lbs (2.03 kg)
  • Dimensions 12.18 x 10.15 x 1.06 in (30.94 x 25.78 x 2.69 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Human evolution, Fossil hominids
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007270098
  • Dewey Decimal Code 573.2

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From the rear cover

In 1974 in a remote region of Ethiopia, Donald Johanson, then one of America's most promising young paleoanthropologists, discovered "Lucy", the oldest, best preserved skeleton of any erect-walking human ever found. This discovery prompted a complete reevaluation of previous evidence for human origins. From Lucy to Language is an encounter with the evidence. Early human fossils are hunted, discovered, identified, excavated, collected, preserved, labeled, cleaned, reconstructed, drawn, fondled, photographed, cast, compared, measured, revered, pondered, published, and argued over endlessly. Fossils like Lucy have become a talisman of sorts, promising to reveal the deepest secrets of our existence. In Part II the authors profile over fifty of the most significant early human fossils ever found. Each specimen is displayed in color and at actual size, most of them in multiple views. With them the authors present the cultural accoutrements associated with the fossils: stone tools which evidence increasing sophistication over time, the earliest stone, clay, and ivory art objects, and the culminating achievement of the dawn of human consciousness - the magnificent rock and cave paintings of Europe, Africa, Australia, and the Americas.

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Citations

  • Booklist, 01/01/2007, Page 34
  • Ingram Advance, 10/01/2005, Page 171
  • Science Books & Films, 01/01/2007, Page 21
  • Science Books & Films Best Bks, 01/01/2008, Page 6

About the author

Donald Johanson has explored the Great Rift Valley of East Africa for more than two decades, seeking clues to our ultimate origins. One of the most lively and controversial scientists working today, he is the author of five previous books, the host of the three-part Nova series In Search of Human Origins, and continues to lecture regularly. Known worldwide for his discovery of the Lucy skeleton, he is founder and president of the Institute of Human Origins in Berkeley, California, where he resides

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