LIFE IN ABUNDANCE

摘要

Before getting off the planernin Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, I'd dismissed as weird romanticism the notion that one's first visit to Africa can stir oddly powerful emotions. But here I am, tearing up on the tarmac at the thought of being back Where our human experiment began. After all, it was nearby in the Awash valley that Lucy, the 3.2 million-year-old mother of us all, was unearthed. Scientists no longer call her our oldest ancestor, but most agree these dry African plains are where we became human.