Missing links : in search of human origins - Reader, John. (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011)
Time and place -- The meaning of fossils -- Nothing so rare -- Neanderthal man (1857) -- Neanderthals and modern humans -- Java man (1891) -- Piltdown man (1912) -- Australopithecus africanus (1925) -- Peking man (1926) -- Australopithecus substantiated (1936) -- Zinjanthropus boisei (1959) -- Tools -- Homo habilis (1964) -- 1470 (1972) and the oldest man -- Australopithecus afarensis (1978) -- Footprints -- Ardipithecus ramidus (1994 & 2009).
Previous eds. published as: Missing links : the hunt for earliest man.
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references.
Keywords: Fossil hominids; Paleoanthropology -- History; Anthropology, Prehistoric