About this title: 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 ...
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Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company, New York-Boston-London
Date Published: 2009
Description: As New in As New jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Very little to no wear; faint rubbing to the spine ends. Quite clean. 'A secret until now, the fossil-'Ida' to the researchers who have painstakingly verified her provenance-is the most complete primate fossil ever found. Forty-seven million years old, Ida rewrites what we've assumed about the earliest primate origins. Her completeness is unparalleled-so much of what we understand about evolution comes from partial fossils and even single bones, ... read more
Description: New. A Brand New Copy. Never Read. Buy with confidence from an Independent Bookstore where the owners, a husband and wife team, have over 30 years of combined bookselling experience. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780316070089ISBN:0316070084
Description: New in new dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 262 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. hardcover with new dust jacket, new covers, clean pages, binding tight as new and unread (clean page edge). Book is shipped in a padded envelope and packaged in bubble wrap for added protection read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown & Co
Date Published: 2009-05-20
ISBN-13:9780316070089ISBN:0316070084
Description: NEW. Hardcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780316070089. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780316070089ISBN:0316070084
Description: Hardcover. As new. Ida is 47 million years old, the oldest fossil ever found-and the most complete! Follow the story of how she died, how she was found and the various theories about how she is related to humans. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780316070089ISBN:0316070084
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Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780316070089ISBN:0316070084
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 262 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780316070089ISBN:0316070084
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 262 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. SHIPS VIA US MAIL read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown, New York
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780316070089ISBN:0316070084
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo. pp. x [2] 262. "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. A magnificent, cutting-edge scientific detective story followed her discovery, and TheLink offers a wide-ranging investigation into Ida and our earliest origins. At the same time, it opens a stunningly evocative window into our past and changes what we know about primate evolution and, ... read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: LITTLE BROWN & CO INC
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780316070089ISBN:0316070084
Description: New. 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... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Little, Brown & Co
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781408702215ISBN:1408702215
Description: Bargain Price New Book. SubTitle/Content: [story of the discovery of 'Ida', an perfectly preserved early primate from the Eocene beds of the Messel pit in Germany, with gerneral discussion of the Messel fauna & primate evolution] 2009. 262pp. read more
"this book was very intresting becuae i read it when i was in germany this summer and i went to a meuseum that had the artificts that they book talked about. it talks about the finding of the smallist monkey life fome. it talks about how they did the lab work to find out every thing about the ela form its remains. the piece by piece placement of the finds was painstaking to read but in the end the book told me a lot about evolution"
"I "read" the audiobook so honestly, there were many technicalities that I probably have missed, but what a fascinating background on which to set this miracle of a discover! And I gave extra points for feeling a little smarter after completing the book. I cannot wait to learn more about the fossil, Ida, itself as the team of scientists publish more of their findings."
"Very good explanation of the scientific importance of the discovery of Ida, a 47 million year old primate fossil found in Germany. Dumbed down nicely for us non-scientists."
"When I was in the American Museum of Natural History last month they were heavily promoting this book, so I got it out from the library. It's about the strange fossil found in the Messel coal pit in Germany in the 1960s, a brilliantly detailed 47 million year old early primate that seems to make a decisive link between the earliest mammals and humans. In private hands until the last few years when it was put up for sale at the Hamburg fossil show and purchased by the Natural History Museum of Oslo, the fossil is of a small, lemur like animal that bridges the gap between monkeys and lemurs to an extent that it is like the "Rosetta Stone of Paleontology." Very interesting book about the Earth during the eocene epic and how the different geologic epics are different from each other. Tudge does a good job of detailing the finds of the Leakeys, Raymond Dart and others in building the base of knowledge around the origins of human beings. One of the most interesting hypotheses in the book concerns the fact that modern humans and Neanderthals wee contemporaries for 10,000 years until either the modern humans wiped out the earlier group, co-mingled with them or out-competed them. Since the Neanderthals lived mostly in northern latitudes, the reasoning is that they would have had more blonde and red-haired people and Tudge speculates that folk memory of the Neanderthals could account for some of the Norse myths about "blonde and red-haired giants". Interesting."
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