Donald 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 "Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind" (1981), established him as one of the most famous living ...
THE GENOME WAR chronicles the race to map and sequence the human genome. Venter, a biologist, upped the stakes when he announced in 1998 that he was forming a private company to unravel the genetic code, which pitted him against the "Human Genome Project," a government venture. The author, Shreeve, dissects Venter's motives, including the desire ...
The emergence of modern human beings some 35,000 years ago, has been the subject of much research and heated debate. Scientists have been perplexed as to why the Neandertals should disappear when their ability was to such a great standard. This book is an account of the research into the subject.
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