Florian Breier

"Splendid and important... Scientifically rigorous and written with a clarity and candour that create a gripping tale... [Böhme's] account of the history of Europe's lost apes is imbued with the sweat, grime, and triumph that is the lot of the fieldworker, and carries great authority." -Tim Flannery, The New York Review of Books In this "fascinating forensic inquiry into human...

A leading palaeontologist discovers the missing link in human evolution. Somewhere west of Munich, Madelaine Böhme and her colleagues dig for clues to the origins of humankind. What they discover is beyond anything they imagined—the fossilised bones of Danuvius guggenmosi ignite a global media frenzy. This ancient ancestor defies our knowledge of human history. His nearly twelve-million-year-old bones were not...