by Yves Coppens · Le Grand livre du mois · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782702831205
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«Le genou de Lucy» is the popular science essay by Yves Coppens, published by Le Grand livre du mois in paperback (250 pages, in French).
Paleoanthropologist Yves Coppens traces human evolution using the famous Lucy fossil as a guiding thread. Halfway between science and narrative, the work explains how the human species came to be what it is and how paleontology has built its own history of the origin of man.
The subtitle of the work is «L'histoire de l'homme et l'histoire de son histoire»; it was published in 1999.
For readers interested in paleoanthropology, human evolution, and the history of science.
Yves Coppens was a French anthropologist and co-discoverer of "Lucy". A graduate from the University of Rennes and the Sorbonne, he studied ancient hominids and had multiple published works on this topic, and also produced a film. In October 2014, Coppens was named an Ordinary Member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences by Pope Francis.
