The Man Who Found The Missing Link; Eugene Dubois And His Lifelong Quest To Prove Darwin Right

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.

Pat Shipman is the author of Taking Wing, which won the Phi Beta Kappa Prize for Science and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award and a New York Times Notable Book (1998). She has received numerous awards and honors for her writing, including the 1997 Rhône-Poulenc Prize for The Wisdom of the Bones (with Alan Walker). Currently an Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University, she lives in State College, Pennsylvania.