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The link : uncovering our earliest ancestor / Colin Tudge with Josh Young

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: [London] : Little, Brown, [2009]Description: x, 262 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781408702147 .
  • 9781408702147 .
Subject(s): Summary: 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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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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