The Man Who Found the Missing Link: Eugene Dubois and His Lifelong Quest to Prove Darwin Right

by Shipman, Pat

• ISBN13: 9780674008663
• ISBN10: 0674008669
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-04-30
• Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Author's Note	ix
An Echo of the Past	1	(8)
The Beginning	9	(12)
The Game	21	(4)
Ambition	25	(6)
Lightning Rod	31	(10)
Love and Conflict	41	(8)
Turning Point	49	(10)
To Find the Missing Link	59	(7)
Logistics	66	(14)
Padang	80	(15)
Pajakombo	95	(4)
Fossils	99	(8)
Garuda	107	(3)
Fevers and Spells	110	(8)
To Java	118	(10)
Java Fossils	128	(4)
Coolies	132	(6)
Discoveries at Trinil	138	(7)
Gathering Resources	145	(8)
Friendship	153	(6)
Trinil	159	(6)
The Birth of Pithecanthropus	165	(6)
1893	171	(11)
Disaster	182	(4)
Letters from a Friend	186	(7)
Aftermath	193	(3)
Perseverance	196	(6)
The Monograph	202	(5)
Writing Up	207	(4)
Separation and Loss	211	(7)
Intermission	218	(5)
To India	223	(4)
Calcutta	227	(16)
Sirmoor State	243	(6)
Siwalik Adventures	249	(7)
Leaving India	256	(5)
Toeloeng Agoeng	261	(6)
Departure	267	(4)
Europe	271	(6)
The Battlefield	277	(20)
More Skirmishes	297	(8)
Using His Brains	305	(11)
Betrayal and Resurrection	316	(6)
Family	322	(5)
The New Century	327	(8)
Diversions	335	(11)
Tragedy	346	(8)
Dangerous Times	354	(12)
A New Skull	366	(7)
Rumors and Isolation	373	(5)
Brain Work	378	(8)
The Diligent Assistant	386	(22)
New Skulls from lava	408	(7)
A Worthy Opponent	415	(7)
To the Battlefront	422	(6)
The Letter	428	(3)
Pretender to the Throne	431	(10)
Old Friends	441	(4)
The Final Conflict	445	(7)
Epilogue	452	(3)
Notes	455	(21)
Glossary	476	(3)
Bibliography	479	(18)
Acknowledgments	497	(2)
Index	499