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9780316070096

The Link Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor

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  • ISBN13:

    9780316070096

  • ISBN10:

    0316070092

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2010-08-11
  • Publisher: Back Bay Books
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Summary

For more than a century, scientists have raced to unravel the human family tree and have grappled with its complications. Now, with an astonishing new discovery, everything we thought we knew about primate origins could change. 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 forty-four million years.

Author Biography

Colin Tudge-áis a biologist by education and a writer by inclination--on biology, food and agriculture, and the philosophy of science. His books include The Tree, Feeding People Is Easy, Consider the Birds, and The Time Before History. For more information about the author, go to www.colintudge.com.

Table of Contents

Forewordp. ix
Discovering Idap. 3
Ida's Story Beginsp. 16
Ida's Eocene Worldp. 37
The Messel Pitp. 57
How Primates Becamep. 101
Primate Evolutionp. 137
From the Eocene to Usp. 164
Who and What Is Ida?p. 202
Revealing Ida to the Worldp. 228
Epiloguep. 245
Acknowledgmentsp. 249
Indexp. 251
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