In this dynamic account, award-winning science writer Ann Gibbons
chronicles an extraordinary quest to answer the most primal of
questions: When and where was the dawn of humankind?
Following four intensely competitive international teams of
scientists in a heated race to find the "missing link"-the fossil
of the earliest human ancestor-Gibbons ventures to Africa, where
she encounters a fascinating array of fossil hunters: Tim White,
the irreverent Californian who discovered the partial skeleton of a
primate that lived 4.4 million years ago in Ethiopia; French
paleontologist Michel Brunet, who uncovers a skull in Chad that
could date the beginnings of humankind to seven million years ago;
and two other groups-one led by zoologist Meave Leakey, the other
by British geologist Martin Pickford and his French paleontologist
partner, Brigitte Senut-who enter the race with landmark
discoveries of their own. Through scrupulous research and vivid
first-person reporting, "The First Human" reveals the perils and
the promises of fossil hunting on a grand competitive scale.
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