The Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestors

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.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.