Much Hype and Many Errors

摘要

Provocative and entertaining, The Link tells the story of a remarkably preserved fossil primate named Darwinius masillae and nicknamed "Ida." The account is related by natural history writer Colin Tudge with Josh Young (who also coauthored Pure Imagination: The Making of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory). Tudge and Young describe how Ida became entombed in an ancient lakebed and how it came to light 47 million years later. Apparently unearthed in 1983 near Messel, Germany, the specimen was cleaved in two and each part sold separately. The first part (now called Slab B) went to a Wyoming collector and was illustrated in 1994 (1).