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Born eighteen months after the first Neanderthal skeleton was found and a year before Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species, Eugene Dubois vowed to discover a powerful truth in Darwin's deceptively simple ideas. There is a link, he declared, a link as yet unknown, between apes and Man.
It takes a brilliant writer to elucidate a brilliant mind, and Pat Shipman shines as never before. The Man Who Found the Missing Link is an irresistible tale of adventure, scientific daring, and a strange and enduring love--and it is true.
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About the Author
Pat Shipman is Professor of Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University. She is a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She has won numerous awards and honors for her writing, including the 1997 Rhône-Poulenc Prize for The Wisdom of the Bones (coauthored with Alan Walker) and the Phi Beta Kappa Prize for Science for Taking Wing, which was also a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 1998.
From The New Yorker
Contentious to the point of paranoia, the Dutch physician and anatomist Eugène Dubois had thoroughly alienated his colleagues by the time he died, in 1940. Dubois was a great believer in evolution; in 1887, he set off for Indonesia to hunt for proto-human fossil remains that would provide the link between apes and human beings. Eight years later, he returned triumphantly to Holland, bringing fragments of a being he called Pithecanthropus erectus (now known as Homo erectus). When his discoveries and theories met with some skepticism, however, he became obsessive and bitter, permanently damaging his reputation. Here Shipman reminds us of the value of his work and the audacity of his vision.
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- PublisherHarvard University Press
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0674008669
- ISBN 13 9780674008663
- BindingPaperback
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