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 Livres
Donald Johanson est un paléoanthropologue américain réputé pour la découverte du fossile d'un ancien ancêtre hominidé. Ses travaux dans la région de l'Afar en Éthiopie ont apporté des éclaircissements cruciaux sur l'évolution humaine primitive. L'accent mis par Johanson sur l'excavation archéologique et l'analyse des fossiles a considérablement fait progresser notre compréhension de nos origines.
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
- 409pages
- 15 heures de lecture
Anschaulicher Bericht über die Entdeckung eines urgeschichtlichen Skeletts (1974) sowie über die Arbeitsmethoden der Paläoanthropologie.