The Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor - Couverture rigide

Tudge, Colin

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1408702142 ISBN 13 : 9781408702147

Editeur : Little, Brown, 2009

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Colin Tudge is a biologist by education and a writer by inclination - on biology, food and agriculture, and the philosophy of science. His books include THE TREES, FEEDING PEOPLE IS EASY, CONSIDER THE BIRDS and THE TIME BEFORE HISTORY.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Little, Brown
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1408702142
• ISBN 13: 9781408702147
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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