Lucy's Knee: The Story of Man and the Story of His StoryThis is the story of the old days, our story, that of the 'slow emergence of the hominid, the difficult breakthrough of consciousness, the heavy rising of body to erect stance and the touching instability of first bipedalism, the clumsiness of first attempts to shape stone and the moving tenacity to improve them.' It is a story of science, paleao-anthropology, and its most recent advances. It is also the story of a life of research, illuminated by the discovery of the skeleton Lucy an object of endless fascination. What is the point of prehistory? It puts Man in its place. 'It teaches us who we are, how we became what we are and why.' This is everybody's history, not only to the people of Africa. Scientific facts are presented to the layperson in an understandable way, making for a fascinating read." |
Contents
THE HUMANS page | 33 |
CHRONICLE page | 63 |
AUTOBIOGRAPHY page | 99 |
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000 years ago anamensis anatomy ancestor apes apomorphic arboreal Ardipithecus Arthur Keith Australopi Australopithecus afarensis bipedal bones brain brow ridge called Camille Arambourg chimpanzee cm of cutting CNRS Cro-Magnon cutting edge dating diet discovered discovery doctorat d'université Donald Johanson Earth East Africa Ethiopia Eugène Dubois Europe evolution expedition fact femur flaked flint fossil genus Homo gorilla H)Omo event Hadar head hominid Homo erectus Homo habilis Homo sapiens human imagine Indonesia Java Jean Kenya laboratory Lake Turkana limbs living locomotion Louis Leakey Lucy Lucy's mandible Marcellin Boule million years ago molar Muséum National d'Histoire National d'Histoire Naturelle natural Neanderthal Olduvai palaeoanthropologists palaeontologists palaeontology pelvis period Pierre prehistory prehumans primates Quentin reconstitution remains Rift robust rudolfensis savannah skeleton skull cap species stone story teeth tibia tion University of Paris vertebrates Yves Coppens Zinjanthropus