Name: The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
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Author: Richard Dawkins
ISBN: 9780544859937

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The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution

Type

Physical Book

Author

Richard Dawkins

Publisher

Mariner Books

Language

English

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15x5.6 cm

Weight

0.86 kg.

ISBN13

9780544859937

Synopsis "The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution"

The renowned biologist and thinker Richard Dawkins presents his most expansive work in this revised edition that offers a comprehensive look at evolution.Loosely based on the form of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Dawkins's tale takes us modern humans back through four billion years of life on our planet. As the pilgrimage progresses, we join with other organisms at the forty "rendezvous points" where we find a common ancestor. The band of pilgrims swells into a vast crowd as we join first with other primates, then with other mammals, and so on back to the first primordial organism.Dawkins's brilliant, inventive approach allows us to view the connections between ourselves and all other life in a bracingly novel way. It also lets him shed bright new light on the most compelling aspects of evolutionary history and theory: sexual selection, speciation, convergent evolution, extinction, genetics, plate tectonics, geographical dispersal, and more. The Ancestor's Tale is at once a far-reaching survey of the latest, best thinking on biology and a fascinating history of life on Earth. Here Dawkins shows us how remarkable we are, how astonishing our history, and how intimate our relationship with the rest of the living world.

Richard Dawkins

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Chosen in 2013 as the world's most important intellectual by Prospect magazine, he rose to fame with The Selfish Gene, followed by The Blind Watchmaker, Climbing Mount Improbable, and Unweaving the Rainbow. He has received numerous awards and distinctions, such as the Royal Society of Literature award, the Author of the Year award at the British Book Awards, and the International Cosmos Prize.

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