The hunt for the dawn monkey unearthing the origins of monkeys, apes, and humans - Beard, K. Christopher (University of California Press, 2004)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-329) and index
Missing links and dawn monkeys -- Toward Egypt's sacred bull -- A gem from the Willwood -- The forest in the Sahara -- Received wisdom -- The birth of a ghost lineage -- Initial hints from deep time -- Ghost busters -- Resurrecting the ghost -- Into the African melting pot -- Paleoanthropology and pithecophobia
Taking us back roughly 45 million years into the Eocene, "the dawn of recent life," Chris Beard, a world-renowned expert on the primate fossil record, offers a tantalizing new perspective on our deepest evolutionary roots. In a fast-paced narrative full of vivid stories from the field, he reconstructs our extended family tree, showing that the first anthropoids--the diverse and successful group that includes monkeys, apes, and humans--evolved millions of years earlier than was previously suspected and emerged in Asia rather than Africa. In The Hunt for the Dawn Monkey, Beard chronicles the saga