The Man Who Found the Missing Link - Pat Shipman
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Like many scientists of his generation, Eugene Dubois (1858-1940) was devoted to the ideas of Charles Darwin. He was also profoundly ambitious, seeking not only to establish incontrovertible proof of human evolution from some apelike ancestor--and thus reinforce Darwin's theories--but also to earn a place for himself at the head of modern scholarship.
Logic dictated that the remains of apelike ancestors would be found in the tropics, writes Pat Shipman in her thoughtful biography of Dubois. And such fossils had indeed been turning up throughout the Dutch East Indies, to which Dubois traveled in 1887. There, he conducted a rigorous campaign of excavations, which yielded fruit four years later with the discovery of fragmentary remains of a creature that he called Pithecanthropus erectus, the "upright-standing apeman" who constituted a missing link between modern humans and their distant ancestors.
Dubois's discovery met with controversy on a number of fronts, and on his return to Europe he complicated matters by ...
Logic dictated that the remains of apelike ancestors would be found in the tropics, writes Pat Shipman in her thoughtful biography of Dubois. And such fossils had indeed been turning up throughout the Dutch East Indies, to which Dubois traveled in 1887. There, he conducted a rigorous campaign of excavations, which yielded fruit four years later with the discovery of fragmentary remains of a creature that he called Pithecanthropus erectus, the "upright-standing apeman" who constituted a missing link between modern humans and their distant ancestors.
Dubois's discovery met with controversy on a number of fronts, and on his return to Europe he complicated matters by ...
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2002, paperback, shelf/user wear, age tanned, fairly good copy [Auteur: Shipman, Pat] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Phoenix] [Jaar: 2002] [Titel: The Man Who Found the Missing Link]
