Adventures with the Missing Link - Raymond A. Dart with Dennis Craig

"In the early 20th century, the prevailing view was that humans had originated in Eurasia. Then, in 1925, the first evidence of an early fossil link between the apes and man was published by Raymond Dart and Africa was proposed as the cradle of humanity. This bold claim was largely dismissed at the time. But with further finds, especially in the eastern part of the continent, Africa has since remained at the centre of the search for human origins.

In 1924, the fossilised skull of a child, half-ape, half-human, found its way without warning into the hands of a young anatomist in Johannesburg, South Africa. He was in an excellent position to interpret it and, in the subsequent paper in Nature, to challenge the accepted concepts of the time. This man was Raymond Dart."

Price: R120.00

Edition: First edition

Published: 1959

Publishers: Hamish Hamilton

Condition: Cloth hardcover in fair condition, with scuff marks and soiling around the around the edges of the cover and the spine. Foxing on the end-papers, otherwise internally in good condition - very clean and tightly bound.