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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2009.Edition: 1st edDescription: x, 262 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780316070089
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • GN282 .T83 2009
NLM classification:
  • 2009 G-871
  • GN282
Online resources:
Contents:
Discovering ida -- Ida's story begins -- Ida's Eocene world -- The Messel pit -- How primates became -- Primate evolution -- From the Eocene to us -- Who and what is Ida? -- Revealing Ida to the world.
Summary: Colin Tudge tells the history of Ida--a perfectly fossilized early primate predating the most famous primate fossil, Lucy, by 44 million years--and her place in the world. At the same time, he explains how Ida opens a stunningly evocative window into our past and changes what we know about primate evolution and, ultimately, our own.
Item type: Book
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Includes index.

Discovering ida -- Ida's story begins -- Ida's Eocene world -- The Messel pit -- How primates became -- Primate evolution -- From the Eocene to us -- Who and what is Ida? -- Revealing Ida to the world.

Colin Tudge tells the history of Ida--a perfectly fossilized early primate predating the most famous primate fossil, Lucy, by 44 million years--and her place in the world. At the same time, he explains how Ida opens a stunningly evocative window into our past and changes what we know about primate evolution and, ultimately, our own.

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