The Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor

Colin Tudge

ISBN 10: 1408702142 / ISBN 13: 9781408702147

Edité par Little, Brown and Company, London, 2009

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No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 262pp. An account of the discovery of 'Ida', the most complete early primate fossil ever found and how this has changed what we know about primate evolution and, ultimately, our own. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery. Size: 9.5 x 6.5 inches.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor
• Éditeur: Little, Brown and Company, London
• Date de parution: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1408702142
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781408702147
• Reliure: Hard Cover
• Édition: First Edition.
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: Fine
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Science / Engineering / Maths
  • Archaeology
  • Anthropology

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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.

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.