Volume 22, Number 9 · May 29, 1975
Millions of Missing Links
By J.Z. Young
Peking Man
by Harry L. Shapiro
Simon & Schuster, 190 pp., $7.95
By the Evidence: Memoirs 1932-1951
by L.S.B. Leakey
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 276 pp., $9.95
Uniqueness and Diversity in Human Evolution
by C.E. Oxnard
University of Chicago Press, 144 pp., $15.00 (to be published this summer)
It is odd that whereas man's knowledge of the stars was one of the earliest forms of science his knowledge of his own origins can hardly be called scientific even today. Probably even the most ambitious student of human fossil bones never expected to win a Nobel Prize. It is a study that does indeed stimulate ambition, though not, unfortunately, scientific acumen.
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