The Missing Link 2 Most Complete Fossil In Primate Evolution

Description: History in New York, by the city's mayor. Although details of the fossil have only just been published in a scientific journal - PLoS One - there is already a TV documentary and book tie-in. She belongs to the group from which higher primates and human beings developed but my impression is she is not on the direct line Dr Jens Franzen Ida was discovered in the 1980s in a fossil treasure-trove called Messel Pit, near Darmstadt in Germany. For much of the intervening period, it has been in ...