Lucy's Legacy: The Quest for Human Origins

In this New York Times bestseller, Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind, renowned paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson told the incredible story of his discovery of a partial female skeleton that revolutionized the study of human origins. Since that dramatic find in 1974, there has been heated debate and more groundbreaking research-including the discovery of Ardi-that have further transformed our understanding of when and how humans evolved.

In Lucy's Legacy, Johanson takes readers on a fascinating tour of the last three decades of study-the most exciting period of paleoanthropologic investigation thus far. Focusing on dramatic new fossil finds and breakthrough advances in DNA research, Johanson provides the latest answers that post-Lucy paleoanthropologists are finding to questions such as: How did Homo sapiens evolve? When and where did our species originate? What separates hominids from the apes? What mysteries, about human evolution remain to be solved?