Written by Donald Johanson and James Shreeve. Lucy's Child is the story of a discovery. In July 1986, Donald Johanson, who forced a major reinterpretation of the early stages of human evolution by finding the famous Lucy skeleton, returns to search for fossils in Africa for the first time in a decade. His destination is Olduvai Gorge, a dusty ravine in Tanzania first put on the paleoanthropological map by Louis and Mary Leakey. Lucy's Child is the firsthand account of a discovery that generates some surprising new insights into our beginnings. 318 pp. with bibliography and index.