Introduction: The Method of Science
Case Study 1. The Darwinian Paradigm: An Evolving World View
Case Study 2. Proving Prehistory: William Pengelly and Scientific Excavation
Case Study 3. Testing Predictions: Eugene Dubois and the Missing Link
Case Study 4. Self-Correcting Science: The Piltdown Forgery
Case Study 5. Checking the Time: Geological Dating at Olduvai Gorge
Case Study 6. Quantifying Evolution: Morris Goodman and Molecular Phylogeny
Case Study 7. Reinterpreting Ramapithecus: Reconciling Fossils and Molecules
Case Study 8. Taming the Killer Ape: The Science of Taphonomy
Case Study 9. Reading the Bones (1): Recognizing Bipedalism
Case Study 10. Reading the Bones (2): Sizing up the Ancestors
Case Study 11. The Habilis Workbench: Experimental Archaeology
Case Study 12. Hunting for Predators: The Scavenging Hypothesis
Case Study 13. Climate Change in the Pliocene: Environment and Human Origins
Case Study 14. Free Range Homo: Modernizing the Body at Dmanisi
Case Study 15. Reading the Bones (3): Tracking Life History at Nariokotome
Case Study 16, Democratizing Homo naledi: A New Model for Fossil Hominin Studies
Case Study 17. A Curious Isolation: The Hobbits of Flores
Case Study 18, Neanderthals in the Mirror: Imagining our Relatives
Case Study 19, Leaving Africa: Mitochondrial Eve
Case Study 20. The Neanderthal Problem: Neighbors and Relatives on Mt. Carmel
Case Study 21. Chasing Smaller Game: The Archaeology of Modernity
Case Study 22, Strangers in Paradigms: Ancient DNA Reveals Mysterious Populations
Case Study 23, Is Humanity Sustainable? Tracking the Source of our Ecological Uniqueness
Case Study 24, The Unknowable Biped: Questions We Cannot Answer
Case Study 25, Parsimony and the Aquatic Ape
Case Study 26. What Science Is: A Cultural and Legal Challenge.