Donald Johanson es un paleoantropólogo estadounidense conocido por el descubrimiento de un fósil de un ancestro homínido temprano. Su trabajo en la región de Afar en Etiopía ha proporcionado información crucial sobre la evolución humana temprana. El enfoque de Johanson en la excavación arqueológica y el análisis de fósiles ha impulsado significativamente nuestra comprensión de nuestros orígenes.
This large-format book by science writer Edgar and paleoanthropologist Johanson--discoverer of the famous partial skeleton of "Lucy," a female hominid who lived 3.2 million years ago--gives as complete a picture as is presently known.
Traces the path of human evolution from the simplest forms, through the development of primates, to the rise of modern humankind and highlights such topics as dating methods, fossil discoveries, and primitive toolmaking.
The Discovery of a Human Ancestor
Don Johanson discovered Lucy, the most famous and one of the most complete of hominid remains, in 1974. His controversial interpretation of the remains as representing an ancestor to all subsequent hominid species, including our own, and his bestselling book "Lucy - the Beginnings of Humankind" established him as the most famous living palaeontologist, his one rival being Richard Leakey, whose views of human evolution remain entirely opposed to Johanson's. In this book, Johanson weaves together the story of his return to Africa in 1986, and the discovery of another extraordinary hominid specimen, with a history of the search for human origins and of his bitter disagreements with Leakey.
Anschaulicher Bericht über die Entdeckung eines urgeschichtlichen Skeletts (1974) sowie über die Arbeitsmethoden der Paläoanthropologie.