Has Berger stumbled upon the proverbial missing link›the elusive connection between our earliest ancestors and the modern world? … Has Berger stumbled upon the proverbial missing link›the elusive connection between our earliest ancestors and the modern world? If so, then his discovery calls for a complete revision of the story of evolution. It is traditionally accepted that most fossils have been discovered in East Africa, but Berger's steadily mounting evidence suggests that the central events in human evolution and, in fact, modern humans themselves, actually emerged in South Africa and then spread north, eventually migrating to Asia and Europe and beyond. So to whom do these footprints belong? Was she really the original ''African Eve,'' the one common ancestor of all living humans? A spellbinding detective story that manages to fuse the craft and tension of the best suspense writers with the acumen and thoroughness of Richard Leakey, Berger's In the Footsteps of Eve goes head to head with the prevailing theories of human evolution and marks the accomplished debut of an extraordinarily intelligent and fast-rising young scientist.
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