ABSTRACT
Last autumn marked the 25th anniversary of the dis-covery of “Lucy.” While that certainly was a momentous event in paleoanthropology, it had no less profound an effect on my academic life, for it presaged my eventual seduction into the arena of hominid fossil interpretation. My friend John Fleagle, editor of Evolutionary Anthropology, says I may introduce this paper with a history of that experience. He assures me this is appropriate because I have now reached the age when young people in the field have no idea who I am.
DOWN THE GARDEN PATH
