The link
Subtitle: uncovering our earliest ancestor
By: Colin Tudge with Josh Young.
Contributors: Young, Josh.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Little, Brown and Co.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780316070089
Subjects: Human beings -- Origin; Primates, Fossil -- Germany -- Messel Region; Human evolution; Primates -- Evolution; Paleontology -- Eocene; Paleontology -- Germany -- Messel Region; Primates, Fossil; Evolution (Biology)
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Discovering ida; title: Ida's story begins; title: Ida's Eocene world; title: The Messel pit; title: How primates became; title: Primate evolution; title: From the Eocene to us; title: Who and what is Ida?; title: Revealing Ida to the world.