by Yves Coppens · FAYARD · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782213012728
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«Le Singe, l'Afrique et l'homme» is the popular science essay by Yves Coppens, published by Fayard in paperback (156 pages, in French).
The book covers the last 70 million years of human history: humans do not descend from the monkey, but from a primate born in tropical Africa. Coppens explains how Earth's tectonics and climate influenced natural selection and presents a synthesis that considers all available knowledge about that evolution.
Published in 1983 in the «Le temps des sciences» collection by Fayard; its author, Yves Coppens, was co-discoverer of the Lucy fossil.
A popular science work for those who want to approach paleoanthropology and the African origins of humanity without needing prior knowledge.
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.
