Ecce Homo: Writings in Honour of Third-Millenium Man

by Donald C. Johanson

Excerpt from : In the light of recent discoveries in the field of paleontology, a collection of essays is offered as a compendium of present scientific knowledge on the origins of man and his evolution, starting with the primates, all the way to the threshold of the third millennium. From the first anthropomorphic apes to the intellectual expressions of Homo sapiens, expert scholars reconstruct and present the various phases in the development of the human race. A thorough bibliography completes the volume.

Hardcover

Published January 1, 1999

About the author

Donald Carl Johanson is an American paleoanthropologist. He is known for discovering the fossil of a female hominin australopithecine known as "Lucy" in the Afar Triangle region of Hadar, Ethiopia.