The Man Who Found the Missing Link
The Man Who Found the Missing Link
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Summary
The 1997 winner of the Rhone-Poulenc Science Prize tells the story of the man whose discovery of 'the missing link' dramatically transformed our understanding of human origins.
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The Man Who Found the Missing Link by Pat Shipman
Pat Shipman's latest book is a scientific biography, written like a novel. It tells the story of one of the greatest scientists at the turn of the century - a Dutchman called Eugene Dubois, now largely forgotten, but the man whose discovery of the 'missing link' altered our view of human origins. As a young man, he decided that the most important contribution a man could make to science would be to find the missing link. It would be the proof of Darwinian evolution, then still controversial. He deduced where the missing link should be and found the fossil, now known as homo erectus, in Java in 1891. Shipman uses a fascinating range of letters, diaries and photographs to tell the story of how Dubois' life and career exploded across the world in the 1890s.
Pat Shipman is an anthropologist at Pennsylvania State University.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780753813416 |
| ISBN 10 | 0753813416 |
| Title | The Man Who Found the Missing Link |
| Author | Pat Shipman |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Orion Publishing Co |
| Year published | 2002-07-04 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |