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.
Donald C. Johanson Book order (chronological)
Donald Johanson is an American paleoanthropologist renowned for discovering the fossil of an early hominin ancestor. His work in Ethiopia's Afar region has yielded crucial insights into early human evolution. Johanson's focus on archaeological excavation and fossil analysis has significantly advanced our understanding of our origins.
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.
Lucy
- 409 pages
- 15 hours of reading
Anschaulicher Bericht über die Entdeckung eines urgeschichtlichen Skeletts (1974) sowie über die Arbeitsmethoden der Paläoanthropologie.