The Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor - Hardcover

Colin Tudge

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9781408702147: The Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor

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ISBN 10: 1408702142 ISBN 13: 9781408702147

Publisher: Little, Brown, 2009

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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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** 'This book is not just a wonderfully readable account of Ida's discover and its immediate signficance: it raisees much wider questions about what being human means (Michael Kerrigan, SCOTSMAN)

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This is an extraordinary fossil' Sir David Attenborough

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