{"product_id":"9781532011917","title":"The Rift","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1960, Dr. Jonathan Leakey discovered a fossilized jaw fragment in the Olduvai Gorge of the East African Rift—the first specimen of what is now known as Homo habilis, an anthropoid (human-like) creature that some think may have been a human ancestor—a debatable point at best. H. habilis is thought to have lived around two million years ago.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1999, a team of paleoanthropologists went to an area near the Olduvai Gorge, to a site known today as Lake Eyasi, to do some routine research relating to the supposed connection between H. habilis and H. sapiens (modern man), with a plan to study a creature that had been extinct for 1.4 million years. Or so it was thought.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat they found was nothing short of a nightmare in which they found themselves examining their faith and its interaction with science that they thought they knew.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"iUniverse, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47163018608880,"sku":"9781532011917","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781532011917_p0.jpg?v=1763743569","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781532011917","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}