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The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution by Dawkins, Richard

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Binding
Hardcover
Weight
2 lbs
Product Group
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Yes
ISBN
0618005838
Book Title
Ancestor's Tale : a Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
Item Length
9 in
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Publication Year
2004
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Item Height
0.6 in
Author
Richard Dawkins
Genre
Science
Topic
Life Sciences / Evolution
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
31.6 Oz, 31.4 Oz
Number of Pages
688 Pages

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The renowned biologist and thinker Richard Dawkins presents his most expansive work yet: a comprehensive look at evolution, ranging from the latest developments in the field to his own provocative views. 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.

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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-10
0618005838
ISBN-13
9780618005833
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30784849

Product Key Features

Book Title
Ancestor's Tale : a Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
Author
Richard Dawkins
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Life Sciences / Evolution
Publication Year
2004
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Science
Number of Pages
688 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9 in
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
31.6 Oz, 31.4 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Qh361.D39 2004
Publication Date
2004-10-27
Read by
Yan Wong
Reviews
"Our complete evolutionary story, brilliantly recounted by Dawkins." --Jonathan Keats, Popular Science, "This clever approach to our extended family tree should prove a natural hit with science readers." Publishers Weekly, Starred "One of Dawkins's best: a big, almost encyclopedic compendium bursting with information and ideas." Kirkus Reviews, Starred "This is an ambitious, important book rich with fascinating insights. Also, it couldn't come at a better time." --Carl Zimmer The New York Times Book Review "Our complete evolutionary story, brilliantly recounted by Dawkins." --Jonathan Keats, Popular Science "The most modest and winning of his eight books." --John Horgan, Discover, "The Most Modest and Winning of His Eight Books." --John Horgan, Discover
Table of Content
CONTENTS The Conceit of Hindsight 1 The General Prologue 12 The Pilgrimage Begins 26 The Farmer's Tale 27 The Cro-Magnon's Tale 35 Rendezvous 0 All Humankind 37 The Tasmanian's Tale 41 Eve's Tale 48 archaic homo sapiens62 The Neanderthal's Tale 64 ergasts 66 The Ergast's Tale 71 habilines 75 The Handyman's Tale 77 ape-men 86 Little Foot's Tale 90 Epilogue to Little Foot's Tale 95 Rendezvous 1 Chimpanzees 100 The Bonobo's Tale 104 Rendezvous 2 Gorillas 106 The Gorilla's Tale 108 Rendezvous 3 Orang Utans 112 The Orang Utan's Tale 115 Rendezvous 4 Gibbons 119 The Gibbon's Tale 123 Rendezvous 5 Old World Monkeys 137 Rendezvous 6 New World Monkeys 141 The Howler Monkey's Tale 145 Rendezvous 7 Tarsiers 156 Rendezvous 8 Lemurs, Bushbabies and Their Kin 160 The Aye-Aye's Tale 163 THE GREAT CRETACEOUS CATASTROPHE 169 Rendezvous 9 Colugos and Tree Shrews 174 The Colugo's Tale 177 Rendezvous 10 Rodents and Rabbitkind 179 The Mouse's Tale 183 The Beaver's Tale 186 Rendezvous 11 Laurasiatheres 192 The Hippo's Tale 196 Epilogue to the Hippo's Tale 202 The Seal's Tale 203 Rendezvous 12 Xenarthrans 212 The Armadillo's Tale 212 Rendezvous 13 Afrotheres 217 Rendezvous 14 Marsupials 223 The Marsupial Mole's Tale 227 Rendezvous 15 Monotremes 231 The Duckbill's Tale 235 What the Star-Nosed Mole Said to the Duckbilled Platypus 243 MAMMAL-LIKE REPTILES 247 Rendezvous 16 Sauropsids 254 Prologue to the Galapagos Finch's Tale 257 The Galapagos Finch's Tale 260 The Peacock's Tale 263 The Dodo's Tale 273 The Elephant Bird's Tale 278 Epilogue to the Elephant Bird's Tale 287 Rendezvous 17 Amphibians 293 The Salamander's Tale 299 The Narrowmouth's Tale 311 The Axolotl's Tale 313 Rendezvous 18 Lungfish 320 The Lungfish's Tale 322 Rendezvous 19 Coelacanths 325 Rendezvous 20 Ray-Finned Fish 328 The Leafy Sea Dragon's Tale 330 The Pike's Tale 332 The Mudskipper's Tale 334 The Cichlid's Tale 336 The Blind Cave Fish's Tale 344 The Flounder's Tale 347 Rendezvous 21 Sharks and their kin 349 Rendezvous 22 Lampreys and Hagfish 354 The Lamprey's Tale 359 Rendezvous 23 Lancelets 362 The Lancelet's Tale 364 Rendezvous 24 Sea Squirts 367 Rendezvous 25 Ambulacrarians 372 Rendezvous 26 Protostomes 377 The Ragworm's Tale 386 The Brine Shrimp's Tale 390 The Leaf Cutter's Tale 395 The Grasshopper's Tale 397 The Fruit Fly's Tale 414 The Rotifer's Tale 424 The Barnacle's Tale 433 The Velvet Worm's Tale 436 Epilogue to the Velvet Worm's Tale 449 Rendezvous 27 Acoelomorph Flatworms 458 Rendezvous 28 Cnidarians 463 The Jellyfish's Tale 467 The Polypifer's Tale 469 Rendezvous 29 Ctenophores 477 Rendezvous 30 Placozoans 480 Rendezvous 31 Sponges 483 The Sponge's Tale 486 Rendezvous 32 Choanoflagellates 488 The Choanoflagellate's Tale 490 Rendezvous 33 DRIPs 493 Rendezvous 34 Fungi 497 Rendezvous 35 Amoebozoans 502 Rendezvous 36 Plants 506 T
Copyright Date
2004
Target Audience
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Lccn
2004-059864
Dewey Decimal
576.8
Dewey Edition
22

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  • by rofh
    15 Aug, 2018

    Great book

    Great and complete discussion of evolution. Think book, and every page is amazing.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-ownedSold by: thrift.books

  • by jessy5150
    07 Feb, 2009

    dawkins will broaden your perspective..

    haven't read the entire thing, but i can say that, based on what i read in his other book "The Blind Watchmaker." dawkins is a pioneer in explaining what is considered to be "complex" in biological terms.

  • by smills111
    17 Mar, 2007

    The Ancestor's Tale

    This book is brilliant. Dawkins explains in detail what is known in evolutionary theory. He also shares the evidence for the theory. Well-written. Every educated person should read this book.

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