by Yves Coppens · Editions Odile Jacob · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782738108166
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«Le genou de Lucy» is Yves Coppens's essay on human evolution, published by Editions Odile Jacob in paperback (211 pages, in French).
Yves Coppens reviews the history of humankind and advances in palaeontology across forty years of African and Asian discoveries, including Lucy. Lucy's skeleton showed that prehumans, already bipedal, still climbed trees, and the book reconstructs stages such as bipedalism, brain growth, tools and language.
Published in Odile Jacob's 'Poches' collection.
A popular science work for readers interested in prehistory, palaeontology and the origin of humankind.
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.
