by PatShipman (Author)
Pat Shipman's latest book is a scientific biography, written like a novel. It tells the story of one of the greatest scientists at the turn of the century - a Dutchman called Eugene Dubois, now largely forgotten, but the man whose discovery of the 'missing link' altered our view of human origins. As a young man, he decided that the most important contribution a man could make to science would be to find the missing link. It would be the proof of Darwinian evolution, then still controversial. He deduced where the missing link should be and found the fossil, now known as homo erectus, in Java in 1891. Shipman uses a fascinating range of letters, diaries and photographs to tell the story of how Dubois' life and career exploded across the world in the 1890s.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Edition: New
Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 04 Jul 2002
ISBN 10: 0753813416
ISBN 13: 9780753813416
Book Overview: Pat Shipman won the 1997 Rhone-Poulenc Science Prize for THE WISDOM OF BONES. 'Shipman is among the best writers who manage to describe science to popular audiences... Dubois could not have asked for a more capable and understanding biographer' NEW YORK TIMES 'She is one of the new breed of excellent science journalists who have the knack of making the obscure clear and the complicated plain...her enthusiasm is catching. Furthermore, Shipman has a great imagination, that quality most needed in the novelist she could so easily be...This is an excellent and riveting book' Fay Weldon, DAILY MAIL 'Shipman's account of Dubois' story is fascinating...it is important for the insights it gives into the development of anthropology and the study of human evolution' NATURE
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