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Climbing to the top: A personal memoir of Australopithecus afarensis

✍ Scribed by Jack T. Stern Jr.

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2000
Tongue: English
Weight: 818 KB
Volume: 9
Category: Article
ISSN: 1060-1538
DOI: 10.1002/1520-6505(2000)9:3<113::aid-evan2>3.0.co;2-w

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Last autumn marked the 25 th anniversary of the discovery of "Lucy." While that certainly was a momentous event in paleoanthropology, it had no less profound an effect on my academic life, for it presaged my eventual seduction into the arena of hominid fossil interpretation. My friend John Fleagle, editor of Evolutionary Anthropology, says I may introduce this paper with a history of that experience. He assures me this is appropriate because I have now reached the age when young people in the field have no idea who I am.