Missing links : in search of human origins /
John Reader ; [foreword by Andrew Hill].
- [Enlarged and updated ed.]
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2011.
- xvii, 538 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 26 cm.
Previous eds. published as: Missing links : the hunt for earliest man. Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references.
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).