The Link – Colin Tudge

2009 biggest evolution story is The Link by Biologist Colin Tudge tells the story of Ida – the important missing link in the human evolution timeline.

Lying inside a high-security vault, deep within one of the world’s leading museums, is an extraordinary specimen that could be the most important scientific discovery of recent times. Highfield has been given exclusive access to the story that stands to send shock waves around the world.

‘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.

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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.

Links and Further Reading

• Colin Tudge’s Website

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