The Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor

Tudge, Colin

ISBN 10: 1408702142 / ISBN 13: 9781408702147

Edité par Little, Brown, 2009

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• Titre: The Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor
• Éditeur: Little, Brown
• Date de parution: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1408702142
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781408702147
• Reliure: 1st edition
• Édition: Edition originale
• État de l'article: fine/fine
• État de la jaquette: Jaquette
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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.

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.