Lucy’s Legacy: Sex and Intelligence in Human Evolution
Alison Jolly
Takes a look at human evolution focusing on the long line of women and of female behavior that was to follow the age of the much-studied oldest human remains.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Year
- 2001
- ISBN-13
- 9780674005402
- Genre
- Science & Technology
- Topics
- Human evolutionSex differencesFemale behavior
Awards
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and TechnologyShortlisted(1999)
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