lucys child discovery human ancestor de johanson donald shreeve james (102 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Good.

Etat : Good. [ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ][ Ships Daily ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: NONE ] [ Writing: NONE ] [ Edition: Reprint ] Publisher: Harper Perennial Pub Date: 10/1/1990 Binding: Paperback Pages: 318 Reprint edition.

Etat : Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good Jacket. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Edition. Very Good Hardcover with Very Good dustjacket.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. 0688064922 318pp. The dust jacket is very good, at least. There is minor rubbing wear on the panels, but no tears. There is a 1/8" stab mark on the spine, which perforates the dust jacket backstrip and is slightly visible on the spine underneath. That is the only true defect with the book, and it doesn't really affect anything. There is no explicit edition information, but there is a Book of the Month Club blurb on the back of the title page, so this may be a BOMC edition. (62791).

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First edition. Very good in very good plus dust jacket; Book shows warping of spine, surface Tear on 1st illustrated pg-paper stuck to opposite pg, dust jacket shows sticker on front panel.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. Book club. Fine in fine dust jacket.

Cloth. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Edition. 318pp; Illustrated with line drawings and photos; Size: 8vo. Book.

trade paperback. Etat : acceptable; used. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDED8vo; 318 pages; acceptable trade paperback; marker line front cover from previous owner; creases to cover; slight nicks and chips to cover edges; tips bumped with chip and fray; some tanning; clean pages; prompt shipping with tracking.

first edition hardcover octavo with d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. 1st Edition. Lucy's Child is the story of a discovery.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. First Edition. Second printing in the same format and year of publication. A clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. Bacon, Paul (jacket design); Matternes, Jay (jacket illustration) (illustrateur). 1st Edition. Fine condition brown boards, brown cloth spine, and silver spine lettering contained in a near fine condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Donald Johanson and James Shreeve; Authors' Dedications; Acknowledgments; Epilogue; Bibliography and Index. Illustrated with a section of color photographic plates, additional black-and-white photographs interspersed throughout the volume, Preliminary Page map and timeline; and illustrated front and rear endpapers. A two inch scratch mark at the jacket front (difficult to see in the picture); the jacket is otherwise in as new condition (see photographs). "Lucy's Child is the story of a discovery. In July 1986, Donald Johanson, who forced a major reinterpretation of the early stages of human evolution by finding the famous Lucy skeleton, returns to search for fossils in Africa for the first time in a decade. His destination is Olduvai Gorge, a dusty ravine in Tanzania first put on the paleoanthropological map by Louis and Mary Leakey. Many of Johanson's colleagues war Johanson that Olduvai's trove of fossils has long since been exhausted. But he is not in a postion to turn the invitation down. Since the late 1970s, the government of Ethiopia has virtually closed off the phenomenally rich fossil beds within its borders where Lucy was found. Meanwhile, Johanson and his brilliant, prickly colleague Tim White have become personae non gratae with Mary Leakey and her son Richard, who controls access to all digging sites in nearby Kenya. Olduvai, exhausted or not, may be the last hope left for Johanson. Only three days after establishing camp, something wildly, almost absurdly fortuitous occurs. In the late afternoon, the survey team led by Johanson and White finds a piece of a two-million-year-old elbow lying on a gentle slope beside the main road throough the Gorge. Next, a stretch of upper jawbone turns up, giving irrefutable evidence that the specimen is indeed a hominid - a member of the human ancestral family. Lucy's Child is the firsthand account of a discovery that generates some surprising new insights into our beginnings. But the book is also the story of a science coming of age, synthesizing for a popular audience a new kind of paleoanthropology that has been emerging over the last few years. The science is no less charged by ego and rivalry, but its practitioners have begun to apply the rigorous self-questioning methods and probing of hard evidence that yield real knowledge about our origins. The book asks the same questions that have puzzled scientists since Darwin: What made us human? When did we first walk upright? Why did we develop such astonishing mental powers? How different are we from the rest of creation? But it approaches these questions from a variety of new directions, incorporating techniques borrowed from molecular biology, new methodologies in archeological excavation, sociobiological studies of primates and hunter-gatherer societies, and new insights into the relationship of ancient man to his environment. The idea for Lucy's Child arose when Donald Johanson saw his return to Africa as a way of framing a discussion of the progress made in human-origins research since the publication of his best seller, Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind, in 1981. What he did not foresee was the discovery of a new hominid skeleton - doubly fortunate for the book, since the find was made while science writer James Shreeve was at Olduvai interviewing scientists and collection impressions. Lucy's Child should appeal to anyone with an interest in the mysteries of the deep human past." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps.

First edition 318pp ex libris (usual cancellation stamps, pockets etc.) very good (sl cocked, corners bruised), d/w rubbed, illust.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Edition. Crease to top edge to dustjacket; Index, bibliography "Firsthand account of a discovery that generates some surprising new insights into our beginnings. 700 grams weight; Color Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 318 pages.

Hardcover. First Edition; Second Printing. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. ; 9.3 X 6.2 X 0.9 inches; 318 pages.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover with DJ. Light brown cloth spine with silver lettering. Brown paper over boards. Pictorial DJ. DJ is a little faded, but overall quite good. Stated first edition with full number line. 318 pages. Illustrated. This copy inscribed on the title page from Don Johanson to Lovejoy. Also tucked inside is a handwritten not to Lovejoy from James Gilliland gifting him a copy (this copy?) of the book. Signed by Author(s).