The Man Who Found the Missing Link: The Extraordinary Life of Eugene Dubois: The Life and Times of Eugene Dubois - Softcover

Shipman, Pat

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0753813416 ISBN 13: 9780753813416

Publisher: Phoenix, 2002

Synopsis

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 Eugène 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.

About this title

Book Description

The 1997 winner of the Rhône-Poulenc Science Prize tells the story of the man whose discovery of ¿the missing link¿ dramatically transformed our understanding of human origins.

About the Author

Pat Shipman is an anthropologist at Pennsylvania State University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Phoenix
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0753813416
• ISBN 13: 9780753813416
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 256