Lucy's Legacy: Sex and Intelligence in Human Evolution by Alison Jolly - 2001-09-06

Harvard University Press, 2001. Paperback. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

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Harvard University Press. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Harvard University Press, 2001-05-31. Paperback. Good.

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Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Fine copy. 2001. Later prt.. softcover. 8vo, 518 pp. .

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001. 3rd printing. Softcover. Very Good/None. 528 pages. Softcover. Black and white illustrations. Light edgewear to wrappers, light creasing on rear bottom fore corner, otherwise clean and tight. Record # 468199

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Harvard University Press, 2001. Trade paperback. Like New. 98x17x147. Alison Jolly believes that biologists have an important story to tell about being human--not the all-too-familiar tale of selfishness, competition, and biology as destiny but rather one of cooperation and interdependence, from the first merging of molecules to the rise of a species inextricably linked by language, culture, and group living. This is the story that unfolds in Lucy's Legacy, the saga of human evolution as told by a world-renowned primatologist who works among the female-dominant ringtailed lemurs of Madagascar.We cannot be certain that Lucy was female--the bones themselves do not tell us. However, we do know, as Jolly points out in this erudite, funny, and informative book, that the females who came after Lucy--more adept than their males in verbal facility, sharing food, forging links between generations, migrating among places and groups, and devising creative mating strategies--played as crucial a role in the… Read More

Harvard University Press, 2001-05-31. Paperback. Used:Good.