The link: uncovering our earliest ancestor pdf

Colin Tudge nació en Londres en 1943. Tiene un interés de toda la vida en la biología y un interés de larga data en la agricultura, la política alimentaria, "varios fragmentos de filosofía", y está especialmente interesado en estos días en la relación entre la ciencia y la religión: " ambos son necesarios”. Tiene tres hijos y dos nietos y vive en Oxford con su esposa Ruth West.
Desde que dejó la universidad en 1965 (Peterhouse, Cambridge, Zoología), Colin Tudge se ha ganado la vida escribiendo y transmitiendo. Entre 1980 y 1984 fue editor de reportajes de la revista New Scientist. También ha trabajado en programas de ciencia para BBC Radio y presentó el programa regular “Spectrum”.
Colin Tudge ha escrito para varias revistas y periódicos, incluidos 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, Revista BBC Vida Silvestre, Índice de Libre Expresión. Pero principalmente escribe libros, dos de los cuales han sido preseleccionados para el Libro de Ciencias del Año de COPUS/Poulence; Last Animals at the Zoo (1991) y The Engineer in the Garden (1993). The Day Before Yesterday (1995) ganó el B.P. Premio al Libro de Conservación del Año.
Colin Tudge es ex miembro del Consejo de la Sociedad Zoológica de Londres y desde 1995 ha sido investigador invitado del Centro de Filosofía de la London School of Economics.

The link: uncovering our earliest ancestor pdf por 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.