The Link : Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor EPUB
by Colin Tudge
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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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- Pages:272 pages, Section: 32, colour photos
- Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication Date:01/09/2011
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- ISBN:9781405511766
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:EPUB
- Pages:272 pages, Section: 32, colour photos
- Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication Date:01/09/2011
- Category:
- ISBN:9781405511766