The Link
Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor
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2009
Little, Brown (Verlag)
978-1-4087-0214-7 (ISBN)
Little, Brown (Verlag)
978-1-4087-0214-7 (ISBN)
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'This is an extraordinary fossil' Sir David Attenborough
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.
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.
Colin Tudge is a biologist by education and a writer by inclination - on biology, food and agriculture, and the philosophy of science.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 20.5.2009 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Section: 32, colour photos |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 162 x 241 mm |
| Gewicht | 702 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4087-0214-2 / 1408702142 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4087-0214-7 / 9781408702147 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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