The link : uncovering our earliest ancestor
Title:
The link : uncovering our earliest ancestor
Author:
Tudge, Colin
Young, Josh
ISBN:
9780316070089
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Little, Brown and Co., 2009
Physical Description:
x, 262 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
General Note:
Includes index
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.
Abstract:
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.
Subject:
| Human beings -- Origin |
| Primates, Fossil -- Germany -- Messel Region |
| Human evolution |
| Primates -- Evolution |
| Paleontology -- Eocene |
| Paleontology -- Germany -- Messel Region |
| Primates, Fossil |
| Evolution (Biology) |
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.