Missing links : in search of human origins / John Reader ; [foreword by Andrew Hill].

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

xvii, 538 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 26 cm

[Enlarged and updated ed.].

Previous eds. published as: Missing links : the hunt for earliest man.

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).

Includes bibliographical references (p. [437]-523) and index.