http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwinius_masillaeThe primary slab remained in Germany, in the possession of a private collector who kept it secret for twenty years before deciding to sell it anonymously via a German fossil dealer.[15] Two German museums turned it down as too expensive, then a year later at the Hamburg Fossil and Mineral Fair in December 2006 the dealer asked vertebrate palaeontologist Dr. Hurum, who had done some previous deals, to discuss something privately. The dealer showed Hurum three high resolution colour photographs of the fossil, and told him that the asking price was $1 million. Dr. Hurum knew that it was a primate, and according to Tudge's book "was fast concluding that the specimen he was looking at could be one of the holy grails of science — the 'missing link' from the crucial time period." He asked for time until after Christmas to organise funding to pay for the specimen and ensure that it had been legally collected, had an export permit and would be legitimately available for study. His first choice was the Natural History Museum of Oslo, but it was beyond their means and he began to think of other museums with sponsors available. He persuaded the Oslo museum to make half the funding available, with the remainder to be paid only after X-ray scans proved conclusively that it was not a fake, a process which took several months. He put together a team including leading German experts on the Messel fossils, ensuring international ownership
The Missing Link: Secret findings regarding Human Evolution
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Re: The Missing Link: Secret findings regarding Human Evolution
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Re: The Missing Link: Secret findings regarding Human Evolution
Could only find one UK proxy that let me on to the iplayer and it said "you need Javascript enabled" and it was enabled
I think the proxy blocked it.

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