When Donald Johanson found a partial 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.

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 ...

Takes a look at human evolution focusing on the long line of women and of female behavior that was to follow the age of the much-studied oldest human remains.

Lucy's Child is a thrilling real-life adventure, an unforgettable journey into the exhilarating heart of scientific discovery-and a shocking expose of the jealousies, dirty politics, and underhanded power-plays that would deny humankind its ...

This is a novel about Lucy's life and times, her friends and enemies, her struggles to survive in a wild, primitive world, her dreams of a better life free of the harsh social structure of her adoptive group.

An account of a discovery that generates new insights into human origins.

Discusses how a collection of old bones revealed a mystery that brought scientists from around the world to study their ancestral connection to the human race in this chronicling of the discovery of the world's most famous hominid.

"Lucy" is the most famous human-evolution icon in public school textbooks.

Finding the first skeleton of an upright-walking human ancestor that was mostly complete and well-preserved, know as Lucy, made the young anthropologist, Dr. Donald C. Johanson, famous and changed what we know about human evolution.