The Man Who Found the Missing Link - The Extraordinary Life of Eugene Dubois

In Java in 1891 Eugène Dubois, now largely forgotten, made a discovery of staggering significance. Through sheer force of personality, intellect and luck, Dubois pulled off one of the most amazing scientific coups of all time. As a young man growing up in Holland he decided that the most important contribution a man could make to science would be to find `the missing link,' the extinct form that exemplifies the evolutionary connection between humans and apes - the ultimate proof of Darwinian evolution. He deduced where the missing link should be, gave up his promising academic appointment, and took his young family to the East Indies, where he found the fossil he sought: Pithecanthropus erectus, now known as Homo erectus...