The link: uncovering our earliest ancestor

The link: uncovering our earliest ancestor PDF

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Colin Tudge wurde 1943 in London geboren. Er interessiert sich sein Leben lang für Biologie und seit langem für Landwirtschaft, Ernährungspolitik, „verschiedene Teile der Philosophie“ und interessiert sich heutzutage besonders für die Beziehung zwischen Wissenschaft und Religion –“ beides ist notwendig“. Er hat drei Kinder und zwei Enkelkinder und lebt mit seiner Frau Ruth West in Oxford.
Seit er 1965 sein Universitätsstudium (Peterhouse, Cambridge, Zoology) beendete, verdiente Colin Tudge seinen Lebensunterhalt mit Schreiben und Rundfunk. Zwischen 1980 und 1984 war er Feuilleton-Redakteur für das Magazin New Scientist. Er hat auch an Wissenschaftsprogrammen für BBC Radio gearbeitet und das reguläre Programm „Spectrum“ moderiert.
Colin Tudge hat für verschiedene Zeitschriften und Zeitungen geschrieben, darunter Farmer's Weekly, New Scientist, The New Statesman, Nature, The Times, The Independent, The Independent on Sunday, The Guardian, Resurgence, The Daily Mail, The London Review of Books, Natural History, BBC Wildlife Magazine, Index für freie Meinungsäußerung. Aber hauptsächlich schreibt er Bücher, von denen zwei in die engere Wahl für das COPUS/Poulence Science Book of the Year kamen; Last Animals at the Zoo (1991) und The Engineer in the Garden (1993). The Day Before Yesterday (1995) gewann den B.P. Auszeichnung zum Naturschutzbuch des Jahres.
Colin Tudge ist ehemaliges Mitglied des Council for the Zoological Society of London und seit 1995 Visiting Research Fellow des Centre for Philosophy an der London School of Economics.

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The link: uncovering our earliest ancestor pdf von Colin Tudge

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 scientific find of a lifetime - a perfectly fossilized early primate, older than the previously most famous primate fossil, Lucy, by forty-four million years.  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, but Ida's fossilization offers much more than that, from a haunting "skin shadow" to her stomach contents. And, remarkably, knowledge of her discovery and existence almost never saw the light of day.
 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 The Link 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, ultimately, our own.

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