The hunt for the dawn monkey : unearthing the origins of monkeys, apes, and humans / Chris Beard ; illustrations by Mark Klingler.

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2004], ©2004.

xv, 348 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 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.