The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
by Dawkins, Richard
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- Hardcover
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- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0618005838
- ISBN 13
- 9780618005833
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. xii, 673 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. "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. / Richard Dawkins taught zoology at the University of California at Berkeley and at Oxford University and is now the Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford, a position he has held since 1995. Among his previous books are The Ancestor's Tale, The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker, Climbing Mount Improbable, Unweaving the Rainbow, and A Devil's Chaplain. Dawkins lives in Oxford with his wife, the actress and artist Lalla Ward." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.
Reviews
On Jan 20 2005, Bookworm Books said:
Written on thye pattern of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales", this is an excellent overview of evolution. Dawkins takes the reader back in time, meeting up with humanity's nearest relations at each step.
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- Title
- The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
- Author
- Dawkins, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0618005838
- ISBN 13
- 9780618005833
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 2004
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- Collectible
- Bookseller catalogs
- XXX / COLLECTIBLES; European / 1. Prehistoric;
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