Lucy Lives: A Novel Look at Early Human Evolution
Join the celebration, for the 50th Anniversary of Lucy's discovery! Lucy50 was a 3-day event marking the extraordinary paleoanthropological triumph, convened in Tempe, Arizona, at the Arizona State University's Institute of Human Origins, in April 2024.

Lucy is an Australopithecus afarensis, over 3 million years old. Her skeleton was discovered in 1974, and is the most famous fossil ever found. This is a novel about Lucy's life, her friends and enemies, her struggles to survive in a primitive world, her dreams of a better life free of the harsh political structure of her adoptive group.

Although the story is fiction, each chapter features a brief non-fictional essay called a "Parentheticus," considering scientific aspects of the events chronicled. Together, the story and the science—a strange sort of science fiction—reveal an early stage of human evolution in action.

The underlying subject is evolution, but the heart of Lucy Lives is a story of adventure, ingenuity, and courage. It is also a story of great endurance, as Lucy has 'outlived' her contemporaries by thousands of millennia!
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Lucy Lives: A Novel Look at Early Human Evolution
Join the celebration, for the 50th Anniversary of Lucy's discovery! Lucy50 was a 3-day event marking the extraordinary paleoanthropological triumph, convened in Tempe, Arizona, at the Arizona State University's Institute of Human Origins, in April 2024.

Lucy is an Australopithecus afarensis, over 3 million years old. Her skeleton was discovered in 1974, and is the most famous fossil ever found. This is a novel about Lucy's life, her friends and enemies, her struggles to survive in a primitive world, her dreams of a better life free of the harsh political structure of her adoptive group.

Although the story is fiction, each chapter features a brief non-fictional essay called a "Parentheticus," considering scientific aspects of the events chronicled. Together, the story and the science—a strange sort of science fiction—reveal an early stage of human evolution in action.

The underlying subject is evolution, but the heart of Lucy Lives is a story of adventure, ingenuity, and courage. It is also a story of great endurance, as Lucy has 'outlived' her contemporaries by thousands of millennia!
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Lucy Lives: A Novel Look at Early Human Evolution

Lucy Lives: A Novel Look at Early Human Evolution

by Mark Weaver
Lucy Lives: A Novel Look at Early Human Evolution

Lucy Lives: A Novel Look at Early Human Evolution

by Mark Weaver

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Join the celebration, for the 50th Anniversary of Lucy's discovery! Lucy50 was a 3-day event marking the extraordinary paleoanthropological triumph, convened in Tempe, Arizona, at the Arizona State University's Institute of Human Origins, in April 2024.

Lucy is an Australopithecus afarensis, over 3 million years old. Her skeleton was discovered in 1974, and is the most famous fossil ever found. This is a novel about Lucy's life, her friends and enemies, her struggles to survive in a primitive world, her dreams of a better life free of the harsh political structure of her adoptive group.

Although the story is fiction, each chapter features a brief non-fictional essay called a "Parentheticus," considering scientific aspects of the events chronicled. Together, the story and the science—a strange sort of science fiction—reveal an early stage of human evolution in action.

The underlying subject is evolution, but the heart of Lucy Lives is a story of adventure, ingenuity, and courage. It is also a story of great endurance, as Lucy has 'outlived' her contemporaries by thousands of millennia!

Product Details

BN ID: 2940186215790
Publisher: Dogwoodhouse Publishing Unlimited
Publication date: 08/04/2024
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 995 KB

About the Author

Mark A. Weaver is an architect by profession, a student and volunteer teacher of evolution, fossils, and paleoanthropology by passion, and a writer by default.

On a cold night in 2009 he was having a deep philosophical discussion with his wife, Deana, about evolution and Lucy in particular, when she made the innocent suggestion that perhaps writing a story about Lucy might be a good way of explaining—and even learning more about—evolution. Captivated by the idea, he got to work.

Thus “Lucy Lives” was conceived.
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