| Seventy-Five Seconds Before Midnight | 4 |
| You Are Wonderful | 12 |
| Searchers At The Edge Of Midnight | 20 |
| The Man Who Saw Things Differently | 30 |
| A Road Divides | 40 |
| Footprints In The Ashes | 52 |
| A Manlike Ape Or An Apelike Man? | 64 |
| The Blossoming Tree Of Life | 74 |
| The Remarkable Leakeys | 88 |
| Dr. Dubois's "Missing Link" | 96 |
| The Riddle Of The Neanderthals | 112 |
| The First Modern Human Beings | 126 |
| Broderick Olcott Presides | 136 |
| Notes | 141 |
| Selected Bibliography | 142 |
| Index | 143 |