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The Ancestor's Tale
By Yan Wong
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Description
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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
800
Release Date:
2016-09-06
Publication Date:
2016-09-06
Publisher:
HarperCollins
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
0544859936
ISBN13:
9780544859937
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
Weight:
864 g
Height:
151 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
55 cm
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The items bear minimal signs of past use, such as light scratches or memories in the form of markings. These signs of wear give the items a charming character and tell stories of their previous owners, while not affecting their functionality.
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