The Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor

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The astonishing new discovery that could change everything ...Lying inside a high-security vault, deep within the heart of one of the world's leading natural history museums, is the scientific find of a lifetime ? a perfectly fossilized early primate, older than the previously most famous primate fossil, Lucy, by an astonishing forty-four million years. A secret until now, the fossil ? 'Ida'? is the most complete early primate fossil ever found. Forty-seven million years old, Ida rewrites what we've assumed about the earliest primate origins. Her completeness is unparalleled. With exclusive access to the first scientists to study her, the award-winning science writer Colin Tudge tells the history of Ida and her place in the world. The Link offers a wide-ranging investigation into Ida and our earliest origins ? and the magnificent, cutting-edge scientific detective story that followed her discovery. At the same time it opens a stunningly evocative window into our past and changes what we know about primate evolution and, ultimately, our own.

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Author:   Colin Tudge
Publisher:   Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:   Little, Brown
Edition:   Export ed
ISBN:  

9781408702215

ISBN 10:   1408702215
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   14 May 2009
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock at warehouse  
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Colin Tudge is a biologist by education and a writer by inclination - on biology, food and agriculture, and the philosophy of science.

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