Lucy Lives: A Novel Look At Early Human Evolution

Join the celebration, for the 50th Anniversary of Lucy's discovery! Lucy50 is a 3-day event marking the extraordinary paleoanthropological triumph, to be 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 thou-sands of millennia! Read more