The search for humanity’s origin is a never-ending journey and the more we learn, the more we discover what we don’t really know.
The latest chapter in the saga plays out something like a scientific detective tale in “Fossil Men,” a new book by Minnesota journalist Kermit Pattison. In it, we travel with a group of fossil-hunters to the Afar region of Ethiopia.
While there, they discover ancient bones that are ultimately dated at 4.4 million years old 1 million years older than the well-known Lucy. Nicknamed Ardi, the new fossils ignited a firestorm of controversy, competition and jealousy within the paleontology community.