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9781919825892

Lucy's Knee: The Story of Man and the Story of His Story

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  • ISBN13:

    9781919825892

  • ISBN10:

    1919825894

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2012-03-15
  • Publisher: Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc
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Summary

This is the story of the old days, our story, that of the "slow emergence of the hominid, the difficult breakthrough of his consciousness, the heavy rising of his body to the erect stance and the touching instability of his first bipedalism, the clumsiness of his first attempts to shape stone and the moving tenacity to improve them". It is the story of a science, palaeoanthropology, and its most recent advances. It is also the story of a life of research, illuminated by the discovery of the skeleton of Lucy, an object of endless fascination. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Yves Coppens is Professor at the College de France, where he holds the chair of paloanthropology and prehistory. He is a member of the Acadmie des Sciences, and the author of Le Singe, I'Afrique et Homme (The Ape, Africa and Man) and Pre-ambules (Preambles), which have enjoyed huge popular success.

Table of Contents

"The Prehumans": The Story of Man before Manp. 13
The Humans: The Story of Man with Manp. 33
Chronicle: The Story of the Story of Manp. 63
Autobiography: The Story of My Story of Manp. 99
Lucy The Fossil: The Story of the Heroine of the Story of the Story of Manp. 123
Lucy The Symbol: The Story of the Story of the Heroine of the Story of the Story of Manp. 139
Conclusionp. 165
Glossaryp. 171
Bibliogaphyp. 173
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