From Lucy to Language: Revised, Updated, and Expanded

I was lucky to find a used copy in mint condition at an affordable price. I had no idea I was buying a coffee-table book with at least 100 beautiful color plates. The details in the photos are amazing. They are mostly at the same scale, so comparisons are easy. It's a masterpiece!My reservation is that It's hard to find the text, nestled in between the many color plates, so I haven't finished reading it. Emphasis is on the earliest skulls that have been found, and there's a lot of information about the development of tool-making. However, so far I haven't found much focus on my main interests, which are the human migrations out of Africa and the evolution of language. In that sense, the title is a little misleading. If I find more of what I'm looking for, I will upgrade my review to 5 stars.

I use this product for drawing reference- and I love evolutionary history

Very informative and with many high quality photos I read some early Leaky books on the fossil fauna in the 60's before Lucy. My dad was an avid hobby geologist and I spent many weekends digging through the cretaceous limestones in north Texas.

Spectacular book. A must have for any one interested in human evolution. paleontology and anthropology. This is an oversized book making reading a bit cumbersome but well worth the effort. The size of the book allows the very excellent (and abundant) photographs of many fossils to be presented "actual size". Of course, the lead author is Don Johanson, discoverer of Lucy. I could see this book being used in a college level course although I just enjoy reading out of interest.

I absolutely love this book. I graduated over 3 years ago and I kept it because the pictures are absolutely beautiful

Stunningly beautiful and very interesting book! I feel honored to own it.

This is a fascinating, up to date survey of human evolution presented with lucid and thoroughly researched text. The standard of design and reproduction are also most professional and make it a volume fit to grace the shelves every school and university library. I found it rewarding on all levels.It is also of sufficient weight to whack creationalists over the head even if they are unable to understand the content.Jeff Clarke

I thought that I was receiving a book that would have a verbal description of this creature, not mainly pictures.

Human evolution is luxuriantly portrayed in this 'must have' volume. For all those tired of making the case for the reality of human paleontology, here is the visual support. Just place on the table and push towards the offending doubting Thomas. Let the pictures (of the fossil evidence) do the rest.

This is a high quality book that has allot of facts and figures in it

This is a beautiful, beautiul book, filled with excellent life size photographs of virtually every available hominid species. The text could be better set up, but that is a minor quibble. Show it to your intelligent friends. Buy copies to give to your nephews and neices.

A fine book on human origin.Excellent!!