Missing Links: In Search of Human Origins

Missing Links is that rare thing: a engaging and authoritative book on an inherently fascinating but dauntingly specialized subject. The study of human origins - palaeoanthropology - is of fundamental interest to us all, but not very inviting. We can all relate to the fossils, those evocative remains of our earliest ancestors, but how many can remember (or even pronounce) their names: Australopithecus, Pithecanthropus, Tugenensis etc? Drawing upon all the relevant academic literature, Missing Links tells the story of our search for an understanding of human origins in a compelling continuous narrative. Illustrated with the author's stunning photographs of the original fossils and their discoverers, it is a book which will enthrall the general reader as well as give specialists a valuable source of reference to both the history of the science and the very latest developments.