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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.
About the Author
Colin Tudge was educated at Dulwich College, 1954-61; and read zoology at Peterhouse, Cambridge, 1962-65. Since 1965 he has worked on journals such as and , the newspaper of the World Food Conference held in Rome, 1974. Ever since then he has earned a living by spasmodic broadcasting and a lot of writing - mainly books these days, but with occasional articles. He has a special interest in natural history in general, evolution and genetics, food and agriculture, and spends a great deal of time on philosophy (especially moral philosophy, the philosophy of science, and the relationship between science and religion) . He has two daughters, one son, and four granddaughters, and lives in Oxford with his wife, Ruth (nee West) .
