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Author Johanson, Donald C.

Title Lucy's child : the discovery of a human ancestor / Donald Johanson and James Shreeve
Edition First edition
Published New York : Morrow, [1989]
©1989

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Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 MELB SPC THORNE  569.909632 Joh/Lct 1989  AVAILABLE
Description 318 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Contents Pt 1: Back to Africa -- Ch. 1 Cold Reflections -- Ch. 2 The Antiquity of Man -- Pt 2: The Road to Olduvai -- Ch. 3 Retrospective -- Ch. 4 Breaking Ranks -- Pt 3: Hominid Who? -- Ch. 5 Hominid Fever -- Ch. 6 Day of the Dik- Dik -- Ch. 7 The Primitive Wonder -- Pt 4: Becoming Human -- Ch. 8 What Happened at FLK? -- Ch. 9 Lucy's Children
Summary The story of Johanson's major paleoanthropological discovery at Olduvai Gorge in July 1986
Analysis Lucy (Australopithecine)
Lucy (Australopithecine)
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages [291]-295
Subject Johanson, Donald C.
Anthropologists -- Africa, East -- Biography.
Anthropologists -- United States -- Biography.
Anthropology, Prehistoric -- Africa, East.
Australopithecus afarensis.
Fossil hominids -- Africa, East.
Lucy (Prehistoric hominid)
Physical anthropologists -- Africa, East -- Biography.
Physical anthropologists -- United States -- Biography.
Anthropology, Physical.
Fossils.
Hominidae.
Paleontology.
SUBJECT Africa, Eastern. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000351
Africa, Eastern. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000351
Genre/Form Autobiographies.
Author Shreeve, James.
LC no. 89009461
ISBN 0688064922